Michael S. Brady presents a fresh perspective on how to understand the
difference that emotions can make to our lives. It is a commonplace
that emotions can give us information about the world: we are told,
for instance, that sometimes it is a good idea to 'listen to our
heart' when trying to figure out what to believe. In particular, many
people think that emotions can give us information about value: fear
can inform us about danger, guilt about moral wrongs, pride about
achievement. But how are we to understand the positive contribution
that emotions can make to our beliefs in general, and to our beliefs
about value in particular? And what are the conditions in which
emotions make such a contribution? Emotional Insight aims to answer
these questions. In doing so it illuminates a central tenet of
common-sense thinking, contributes to an on-going debate in the
philosophy of emotion, and illustrates something important about the
nature of emotion itself. For a central claim of the book is that we
should reject the idea that emotional experiences give us information
in the same way that perceptual experiences do. The book rejects, in
other words, the Perceptual Model of emotion. Instead, the
epistemological story that the book tells will be grounded in a novel
and distinctive account of what emotions are and what emotions do. On
this account, emotions help to serve our epistemic needs by capturing
our attention, and by facilitating a reassessment or reappraisal of
the evaluative information that emotions themselves provide. As a
result, emotions can promote understanding of and insight into
ourselves and our evaluative landscape.
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ISBN
9780191022586
Publisert
2020
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OUP Oxford
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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