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Philosophy of Emotion: A Contemporary Introduction book cover

1st Edition

Philosophy of Emotion A Contemporary Introduction

By Christine Tappolet Copyright 2023
272 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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In 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,... Read more

Preface

Part I: The Philosophy and the Science of Emotions

1. The Philosophy of Emotions

2. The Affective Domain

3. Are Emotions Social Constructs?

Part II: Theories of Emotions

4. Feelings theories

5. Motivational theories

6. Evaluative theories

Part III: Normativity and Emotions

7. Emotions and Theoretical Rationality

8. Emotions and practical irrationality

9. Sentimentalism

10. Ethics and the emotions

Part IV. Art and the Shaping of Emotions

11. Emotion Regulation and Music

12. Sentimental Education and Fiction

Conclusion

Biography

Christine Tappolet is a Full Professor in the Philosophy Department at the Université de Montréal. Her research interests lie mainly in metaethics, moral psychology, and emotion theory. She has edited a number of volumes, including, with Sarah Stroud, Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality (Oxford University Press, 2003) and with Fabrice Teroni and Anita Konzelmann Ziv, Shadows of the Soul: Perspective on Negative Emotions (Routledge, 2018), and has authored three books, including Emotions, Values, and Agency (Oxford University Press, 2016).

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