| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 273 pages) : illustrations |
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pt. I: Neuroscientific foundations -- William James and the modern neurobiology of emotion / Antonio R. Damasio -- Homologizing human emotions / Andrew D. Lawrence and Andrew J. Calder -- pt. II: Emotion, belief, and appraisal -- Emotional behaviour and the scope of belief-desire explanation / Finn Spicer -- Which emotions are basic? / Jesse Prinz -- Towards a 'Machiavellian' theory of emotional appraisal / Paul E. Griffiths -- Unpicking reasonable emotions / Brian Parkinson -- pt. III: Evolution and the rationality of emotion -- Evolution, culture, and the irrationality of the emotions / Chandra Sekhar Sripada and Stephen Stich -- Role of emotions in ecological and practical rationality / Matteo Mameli -- Search hypothesis of emotion / Dylan Evans -- Adaptive illusions: optimism, control, and human rationality / Daniel Nettle -- Emotion versus reason as a genetic conflict / Christopher Badcock -- pt. IV: Philosophical perspectives -- Conscience and conflict: Darwin, Freud, and the origins of human aggression / Jim Hopkins -- Emotion, reason, and virtue / Peter Goldie |
| Summary |
Do our emotions stop us being rational? For thousands of years emotions have been thought of as obstacles to intelligent thought. In this book, leading thinkers from philosophy psychology and neuroscience challenge this commonly held view of emotion in a series of challenging essays |
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Evolution |
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Rationality |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Emotions.
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Emotional intelligence.
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Reason.
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Philosophy.
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Emotions
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Philosophy
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Emotional Intelligence
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reason.
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emotion.
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philosophy.
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Philosophy
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Emotional intelligence
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Emotions
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Reason
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Philosophie
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Gefühl
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Rationalität
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Emoties.
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Evolutionary psychology.
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Rationaliteit.
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Evans, Dylan, 1966-
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Cruse, Pierre
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| ISBN |
9780191689604 |
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0191689602 |
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