Buch, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 447 g
Buch, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 447 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-852898-2
Verlag: OUP Oxford
Key Features:Dylan Evans is the author of the bestselling Emotion: The science of sentiment (OUP) and The Placebo Effect (Harper Collins)
- The first book to explore the intricate relationship between emotion and rationality
- Examines the question of whether emotions hinder or help rational thought
- Includes chapters from leading thinkers in neuroscience, philosophy and psychology
Description:
For thousands of years, many Western thinkers have assumed that emotions are, at best, harmless luxuries, and at worst outright obstacles to intelligent action. In the past decade, however, scientists and philosophers have begun to challenge this negative view of emotion. Neuroscientists, psychologists and researchers in artificial intelligence now agree that emotions are vital to intelligent action. Evolutionary considerations have played a vital role in this shift to a more positive view of emotion.
This book brings together some of the leading thinkers about emotion from a variety of disciplines. In a series of fascinating and challenging essays, they examine the role that evolutionary considerations can play in helping us to understand the role of emotions in rational thought and decision-making. How should we understand the evolutionary role of emotions? And can this explain the relationship between emotions and rationality?
Contents:
Part I - Neuroscientific Foundations
1. William James and the modern neurobiology of emotion
2. Homologizing human emotions
Part II - Emotion, Belief and Appraisal
3. Emotional behaviour and the scope of belief-desire explanation
4. Emotion, psychosemantics and embodied appraisals
5. Towards a 'Machiavellian' theory of emotional appraisal
6. Unpicking reasonable emotions
Part III - Evolution and the Rationality of Emotion
7. Evolution, culture and the irrationality of the emotions
8. The role of emotions in ecological and practical rationality
9. The search hypothesis of emotion
10. Adaptive illusions: optimism, control and human rationality
11. Emotion versus reason as a genetic conflict
Part IV - Philosophical Perspectives
12. Conscience and conflict: Darwin, Freud and the origins of human aggression
13. Emotion, reason and virtue
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- The first book to explore the intricate relationship between emotion and rationality
- Examines the question of whether emotions hinder or help rational thought
- Includes chapters from leading thinkers in neuroscience, philosophy and psychology
Description:
For thousands of years, many Western thinkers have assumed that emotions are, at best, harmless luxuries, and at worst outright obstacles to intelligent action. In the past decade, however, scientists and philosophers have begun to challenge this negative view of emotion. Neuroscientists, psychologists and researchers in artificial intelligence now agree that emotions are vital to intelligent action. Evolutionary considerations have played a vital role in this shift to a more positive view of emotion.
This book brings together some of the leading thinkers about emotion from a variety of disciplines. In a series of fascinating and challenging essays, they examine the role that evolutionary considerations can play in helping us to understand the role of emotions in rational thought and decision-making. How should we understand the evolutionary role of emotions? And can this explain the relationship between emotions and rationality?
Contents:
Part I - Neuroscientific Foundations
1. William James and the modern neurobiology of emotion
2. Homologizing human emotions
Part II - Emotion, Belief and Appraisal
3. Emotional behaviour and the scope of belief-desire explanation
4. Emotion, psychosemantics and embodied appraisals
5. Towards a 'Machiavellian' theory of emotional appraisal
6. Unpicking reasonable emotions
Part III - Evolution and the Rationality of Emotion
7. Evolution, culture and the irrationality of the emotions
8. The role of emotions in ecological and practical rationality
9. The search hypothesis of emotion
10. Adaptive illusions: optimism, control and human rationality
11. Emotion versus reason as a genetic conflict
Part IV - Philosophical Perspectives
12. Conscience and conflict: Darwin, Freud and the origins of human aggression
13. Emotion, reason and virtue
Zielgruppe
Psychologists and philosophers
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Psychologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Emotion, Motivation, Handlung
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Philosophische Psychologie, Logotherapie, Existenzanalyse
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Neurobiologie, Verhaltensbiologie
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft
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