Emotion and Value

This volume brings together new work by leading philosophers on emotion and value. They address questions including the role of emotions in practical rationality and moral psychology, the connection between imagination and emotion, and the ability of emotions to ground ethical or aesthetic judgements.

Sabine Roeser is professor of ethics at the philosophy Department of the University of Delft, The Netherlands, where she holds a distinguished Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Chair. She is head of a research group on 'Moral Emotions and Risk Politics'. Her research has been funded by several major grants from the Dutch science foundation NWO, and she publishes on ethics, emotions, and risk. She is author of the monograph Moral Emotions and Intuitions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

Cain Todd has been Lecturer in Philosophy at Lancaster University since completing his PhD in philosophy at the University of Cambridge in 2003. He has held visiting positions at the University of Geneva and the Institut Jean Nicod, and from 2011 to 2013 he was co-leader of the project 'Imagination, Emotion, and Value' funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. His main research areas are aesthetics, philosophy of mind, and value theory, and in addition to publishing a number of articles in these areas he is the author of The Philosophy of Wine: a case of truth, beauty, and intoxication (Acumen Press, 2010).