
Emotions
Their Rationality and Consistency
Marion Ledwig(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 4. May 2006
Book
Hardback
222 pages
978-0-8204-8611-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
524 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8204-8611-6 (9780820486116)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
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.