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Book SynopsisMuch of what we take to be meaningful and significant in life is inextricably linked with our capacity to experience emotions. Here, Jonathan Mitchell considers emotional experiences as sui generis states to be given their own place within our mental economy, and proposes an original view of emotional experiences as feelings-towards-values.
Trade ReviewJonathan Mitchell's Emotion as Feeling towards Value is a sustained and careful defense of an intriguing theory of emotion as a distinctive kind of evaluative representation... Emotion as Feeling towards Value constitutes a prime example of patient, rigorous, intellectually honest philosophy of emotion. * Hichem Naar, Ethics *
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Experiential Modes and Face Value Contents (a framework) 2: The Evaluative Content View of Emotional Experience 3: The Content Priority View 4: The Nature of Emotional Experience 5: The Role of the Body and Action-Readiness 6: The Intelligibility of Emotional Experience Conclusion
