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While philosophical speculation into the nature and value of emotions is at least as old as the Pre-Socratics, William James' "What is an emotion?" reinvigorated interest in the question. Coming to grips with James' proposals, particularly in the light of subsequent concerns for the difficulties inherent in a so-called private language, led philosophers away from analyses centred on feelings to ones centred on thoughts. Analyzing the emotions in this way involves returning to a vision of the emotions that traces its ancestry back to the Stoics, but has proven to be enormously insightful and influential again in modern times. The papers collected here centre on James' question and often respond explicitly to one another. Together, they provide a sense of what a cognitive view of the emotions maintains, what it denies, and how it has arisen. The connection provides wide-ranging coverage of the point of dispute amongst those impressed by the cognitive approach, and gives a good sense too of the tremendous explanatory power of this view.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Background
What is an Emotion?
William James
Toward a Cognitive Conception of Emotion
Emotions and Statements About Them
Errol Bedford
A Subjective Theory of the Passions
Robert C. Solomon
Objections and Modifications
A Case of Mixed Feelings: Ambivalence and the Logic of Emotion
Patricia S. Greenspan
Emotion, Judgment, and Desire
Jenefer Robinson
Psychic Feelings: Their Importance and Irreducibility
Michael Stocker
Physiological Changes and the Emotions
William Lyons
On Emotions as Judgments
Robert C. Solomon
Related Approaches
The Thesis of Constructionism
Claire Armon: Jones
The Rationality of Emotion, Chapter 7
Ronald de Sousa
Reconsidering the Options
Startle
Jenefer Robinson
Modularity, and the Psychoevolutionary Theory of Emotion
P.E. Griffiths
On Feeling Angry and Elated
Stephen Leighton
From The Therapy of Desire
Martha C. Nussbaum
References and Further Readings