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Do our emotions stop us being rational? For thousands of years, emotions have been thought of as obstacles to intelligent thought. This view has been challenged in recent years by both philosophers and scientists. 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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Author:   Dylan Evans (, Senior Lecturer in Intelligent Autonomous Systems, CEMS, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK) ,  Pierre Cruse (, Centre de Philosophie des Sciences, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9780198528975

ISBN 10:   0198528973
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   22 April 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I - Neuroscientific Foundations 1: Antonio Damasio: William James and the modern neurobiology of emotion 2: Andrew Lawrence & Andrew Calder: Homologizing human emotions Part II - Emotion, Belief and Appraisal 3: Finn Spicer: Emotional behaviour and the scope of belief-desire explanation 4: Jesse Prinz: Which emotions are basic? 5: Paul Griffiths: Towards a 'Machiavellian' theory of emotional appraisal 6: Brian Parkinson: Unpicking reasonable emotions Part III - Evolution and the Rationality of Emotion 7: Chandra Sripada & Stephen Stich: Evolution, culture and the irrationality of the emotions 8: Gianmatteo Mameli: The role of emotions in ecological and practical rationality 9: Dylan Evans: The search hypothesis of emotion 10: Daniel Nettle: Adaptive illusions: optimism, control and human rationality 11: Christopher Badcock: Emotion versus reason as a genetic conflict Part IV - Philosophical Perspectives 12: Jim Hopkins: Conscience and conflict: Darwin, Freud and the origins of human aggression 13: Peter Goldie: Emotion, reason and virtue

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