| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 212 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Consciousness & emotion book series ; v. 4
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Consciousness & emotion book series ; v. 4.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Fact and value in emotion : an introduction and historical review / Peter Zachar -- A moral line in the sand : Alexander Crichton and Philippe Pinel on the psychopathology of the passions / Louis C. Charland -- How to evaluate the factual basis of emotional appraisals? / Mikko Salmela -- The problem with too much anger : a philosophical approach to understanding anger in borderline personality disordered patients / Nancy Nyquist Potter -- A confusion of pains : the sensory and affective components of pain, suffering, and hurt / Jennifer Radden -- Ethical implications of emotional impairment / Abraham Rudnick -- Facts and values in emotional plasticity / Luc Faucher and Christine Tappolet -- Attributing aberrant emotionality to others / Nick Haslam and Stephen Loughnan -- Emotion and the neural substrate of moral judgment / Anthony Landreth -- The phenomenology of alexithymia as a clue to the intentionality of emotion / Ralph D. Ellis -- A phenomenologist's view of the omnipresence of the evaluative in human experience : knowledge as a founded mode and the primacy of care / Edwin L. Hersch. |
| Summary |
There is a large amount of scientific work on emotion in psychology, neuroscience, biology, physiology, and psychiatry, which assumes that it is possible to study emotions and other affective states, objectively. Emotion science of this sort is concerned primarily with 'facts' and not 'values', with 'description' not 'prescription'. The assumption behind this vision of emotion science is that it is possible to distinguish factual from evaluative aspects of affectivity and emotion, and study one without the other. But what really is the basis for distinguishing fact and value in emotion and aff. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Emotions.
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Emotions. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Charland, Louis C.
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Zachar, Peter.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fact and value in emotion. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008 9789027241535 9027241538 (DLC) 2007048317 (OCoLC)183179458 |
| ISBN |
9789027291660 (electronic book) |
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9027291667 (electronic book) |
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9027241538 (cloth) |
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9789027241535 (cloth) |
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