
Curious Emotions
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- Curious Emotions
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Introduction
- 1. The enactive approach to affective intentionality
- 2. Some preliminary predictions of enactivism
- 3. The "curious" emotions
- 4. Conceptualizing action versus reaction
- 5. Plan of the book
- 1. Preconscious emotional intentionality
- 1. Motivation, conscious emotion, and unconscious emotion
- 2. The murkiness of emotional intentionality
- 3. Aims, objects, triggers, and symbolization-vehicles
- 4. The roles of sensation, interoception, and sensorimotor action imagery
- 2. Motivated attention in action
- 1. Linear versus dynamical causal sequences in the brain
- 2. Conflicting theories with conflicting empirical predictions
- 3. The P300 ERP as an operational definition of perceptual consciousness
- 4. How the Mack and Rock data relate to the two types of hypotheses
- 5. The paradox of early and late selection
- 6. Attention and conscious processing
- 7. Further implications for the problems of attention and consciousness
- 3. Non-consummatory motivations
- 1. Intertheoretic reduction and consummatory-drive reductionism
- 2. The notion of "extropy": A non-reductive force?
- 3. The humanistic notion of "life wish"
- 4. A possible synthesis
- 4. Homeostasis, extropy, and boundary needs as grounding specific emotions
- 1. Physiological evidence for non-consummatory motivation
- 2. Novelty, constraints to freedom, and the action-consciousness connection
- 3. The importance of extropy needs in higher mammals
- 4. Existential requirements for an adequate dynamical theory of emotion
- 5. Toward an integrated physiological and phenomenological account
- 5. Varieties of extended self and personality
- 1. How emotion grounds the various senses of self
- 2. Why not an illusory-choice model?
- 3. The embodied self and the personality
- 4. How can there be knowledge of the self?
- 6. Learning about emotions through the arts
- 1. An enactive dance form for the eye
- 2. Why does art move, and not just entertain?
- 3. Love and other non-consummatory motivations
- 7. Dynamical systems and emotional agency
- 1. The causal power of dynamical systems
- 2. How can top-down systems avoid violating causal closure?
- 3. The emotional brain as an enactive system
- 4. Objections and responses
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
- The series Advances in Consciousness Research
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