Emotion, Evolution and Rationality

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-852898-2
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 447 g

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?

Zielgruppe

Psychologists and philosophers

Autoren/Hrsg.

Evans, Dylan

Cruse, Pierre

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Philosophische Psychologie, Logotherapie, Existenzanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Emotion, Motivation, Handlung
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Psychologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Neurobiologie, Verhaltensbiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I - Neuroscientific Foundations

- 1: Antonio Damasio: William James and the modern neurobiology of emotion

- 2: Andrew Lawrence and Andrew Calder: Homologizing human emotions

- Part II - Emotion, Belief and Appraisal

- 3: Finn Spicer: Emotional behaviour and the scope of belief-desire explanation

- 4: Jesse Prinz: Which emotions are basic?

- 5: Paul Griffiths: Towards a 'Machiavellian' theory of emotional appraisal

- 6: Brian Parkinson: Unpicking reasonable emotions

- Part III - Evolution and the Rationality of Emotion

- 7: Chandra Sripada and Stephen Stich: Evolution, culture and the irrationality of the emotions

- 8: Gianmatteo Mameli: The role of emotions in ecological and practical rationality

- 9: Dylan Evans: The search hypothesis of emotion

- 10: Daniel Nettle: Adaptive illusions: optimism, control and human rationality

- 11: Christopher Badcock: Emotion versus reason as a genetic conflict

- Part IV - Philosophical Perspectives

- 12: Jim Hopkins: Conscience and conflict: Darwin, Freud and the origins of human aggression

- 13: Peter Goldie: Emotion, reason and virtue

Über Autor(innen)

DYLAN EVANS, Centre for Biomimetics and Natural Technology, University of Bath, Bath, UK, and PIERRE CRUSE, Centre de Philosophie des Sciences, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium