140 Pages
by
Routledge
140 Pages
by
Routledge
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Despite the many attempts to disentangle the relationship between morality and emotion, as is clear from the myriad of approaches that try to understand the nature and importance of their connection, the extent of this synergy remains rather controversial.
The multidisciplinary framework of the present volume was specifically designed to challenge self-containing disciplinary views,... Read more
Introduction
- Emotions, Morality, and Identity: An Empirical Approach
- Weakness of Will and Self-control: The role of Emotions in Impulsive Behaviour
- Emotions and Akratic Feelings: Insights into Morality Through Emotions
- Morality and Empathy vs Empathy and Morality: A Quest for the Source of Goodness in Phylogenetic and Ontogenetic Contexts
- Moral Feelings from Rocky Fictional Ground
- Software sans Emotions but with Ethical Discernment
- Emotional Rescue and, Au Ralenti: Some Stories About Images
- Sing to Me: the Language of Music
Conclusion
Biography
Sara Graça da Silva received her PhD from Keele University in 2008 with the thesis Sexual Plots in Charles Darwin and George Eliot: Evolution and Manliness in Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss. Her research interests include the intersections between literature and science, theories of sexuality and gender, Darwinism, morality and emotion, and the evolutionary study of folktales. Graça da Silva has contributed to the Victorian Literature Handbook, the Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism, and Utopian Studies, amongst others.
