World-Directedness of Emotional Feeling : On Affect and Intentionality

Müller, Jean Mortiz

ISBN 10: 3030238199 / ISBN 13: 9783030238193

Published by Palgrave Pivot, 2019

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Synopsis:

This book engages with what are widely recognized as the two core dimensions of emotion. When we are afraid, glad or disappointed, we feel a certain way; moreover, our emotion is intentional or directed at something: we are afraid of something, glad or disappointed about something. Connecting with a vital strand of recent philosophical thinking, Müller conceives of these two aspects of emotion as unified. Examining different possible ways of developing the view that the feeling dimension of emotion is itself intentional, he argues against the currently popular view that it is a form of perception-like receptivity to value. Müller instead proposes that emotional feeling is a specific type of response to value, an affective ‘position-taking’. This alternative conceives of emotional feeling as intimately related to our cares and concerns. While situating itself within the analytic-philosophical debate on emotion, the discussion crucially draws on ideas from the early phenomenological tradition and thinks past the theoretical strictures of many contemporary approaches to this subject. The result is an innovative view of emotional feeling as a thoroughly personal form of engagement with value.

About the Author:

Jean Moritz Müller, PhD, is a research associate at the University of Bonn, Germany. He works in the philosophy of mind, with a particular emphasis on the philosophy of emotion, and related areas of meta-ethics.

Bibliographic Details

Title: World-Directedness of Emotional Feeling : On...
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Publication Date: 2019
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New