Emotions : Their Rationality and Consistency

Marion Ledwig

ISBN 10: 0820486116 / ISBN 13: 9780820486116

Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang, 2006

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Emotions: Their Rationality & Consistency stands in the tradition of current emotion theorists, such as Elster, Damasio, de Sousa, Greenspan, Nussbaum, and Solomon, who advance the rationality of the emotions. Yet this book goes beyond their accounts, for it not only defends the view that emotions can be termed rational, but also considers in which different senses emotions can be termed rational. Besides discussing whether emotional intelligence and emotional consistency are forms of emotional rationality, this book makes clear how far this view on the rationality of the emotions can be generalized: whether it can, for instance, be generalized to computers having rational emotions and whether emotional responses to art can be considered to be rational. This book draws not only on knowledge from neuroscience, cognitive science, and philosophy of mind, but also on evolutionary theory and developmental psychology, to substantiate its position.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Emotions : Their Rationality and Consistency
• Publisher: Peter Lang, Peter Lang
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820486116
• ISBN 13: 9780820486116
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 236W x 165H x 17D millimeters 236 millimeters width by 165 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 524 grams

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Synopsis

Emotions: Their Rationality & Consistency stands in the tradition of current emotion theorists, such as Elster, Damasio, de Sousa, Greenspan, Nussbaum, and Solomon, who advance the rationality of the emotions. Yet this book goes beyond their accounts, for it not only defends the view that emotions can be termed rational, but also considers in which different senses emotions can be termed rational. Besides discussing whether emotional intelligence and emotional consistency are forms of emotional rationality, this book makes clear how far this view on the rationality of the emotions can be generalized: whether it can, for instance, be generalized to computers having rational emotions and whether emotional responses to art can be considered to be rational. This book draws not only on knowledge from neuroscience, cognitive science, and philosophy of mind, but also on evolutionary theory and developmental psychology, to substantiate its position.

About the Author

The Author: Marion Ledwig is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. She has studied psychology and philosophy at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, and received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Konstanz, Germany. Her main interests are the philosophy of Thomas Reid, decision theory, emotion theory, causation theory, and truth theory.