Synopsis

What is emotion? This unit takes a philosophical approach to this question in an attempt to understand why people respond to events in a certain way. Is there a difference between an emotion and a bodily feeling or is one a consequence of the other?

Table of Contents

Introduction
Learning outcomes
1 Introduction: a picture of emotion
2.1 Philosophy and science
2.2 Identifying emotions
2.3 Essential properties and central cases
2.4 Components, causes and effects
3.1 William James
3.2 Understanding James's account
3.3 Emotion, motivation and action
3.4 Cognitive and non-cognitive states
3.5 Emotions as passions
3.6 Assessing James's argument
Next steps
References
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Learning outcomes
1 The quick and the dead – the minded and the non-minded
2 Kinds of minds
3 Varieties of mental phenomena
4 The attitudinal and the experiential
5 Dispositions versus occurrences
6 The relations among mental phenomena
7 Summary
Further reading
Next steps
References
Acknowledgements

 

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