Emotions are crucial to human agency. But what are emotions? And how do they relate to agency? The aim of this book is to spell out an account of emotions, which is grounded on analogies between emotions and sensory experiences, and to explore the implications of this account for our understanding of human agency. The central claim is that emotions consist in perceptual experiences of values, such as the fearsome, the disgusting or the admirable. A virtue of this account is that it affords a better grasp of a variety of interconnected phenomena: the relationship between emotions and motivation, the nature of evaluative judgements, the relationship between responsibility and attitudes such as anger, and, finally, the relation between emotions and reasons.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN-13
9780199696512
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221988904
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Biological Psychology
Author
Christine Tappolet
Publication Name
Emotions, Values, and Agency
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
246 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
224mm
Item Width
143mm
Item Weight
422g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Christine Tappolet
Topic
Popular Philosophy
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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