Description
Book SynopsisIn this book, Christine Tappolet offers readers a thorough, wide-ranging, and highly accessible introduction to the philosophy of emotions. It covers recent interdisciplinary debates on the nature of emotions as well as standard theories of emotions, such as feeling theories, motivational theories, and evaluative theories. The book includes discussions of the alleged irrationality of emotions, and looks into the question of whether emotions could not, in some cases, contribute positively to theoretical and practical rationality. In addition, the role of emotions in the theory of virtues and the theory of values receives a detailed treatment. Finally, the book turns to the question of how we can regulate and even educate our emotions by engaging with music and with narrative art.
The overall picture of emotions that emerges is one that does justice to the central role that emotions play in our lives, conceiving of emotions as crucial to our grasp of values. As an opinionated in
Table of Contents
1. The Philosophy of Emotions 2. The Affective Domain 3. Are Emotions Social Constructs? 4. Feelings theories 5. Motivational theories 6. Evaluative theories 7. Emotions and Theoretical Rationality 8. Emotions and practical irrationality 9. Sentimentalism 10. Ethics and the emotions 11. Emotion Regulation and Music 12. Sentimental Education and Fiction
