Epistemology and emotions
edited by Georg Brun, Ulvi Doğuoğlu, and Dominique Kuenzle.
Bok Engelsk 2008 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : : Ashgate, , c2008.
|
|---|---|
| Omfang | 1 online resource (222 p.)
|
| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; List of Contributors and Editors; Guide to the Essays; Introduction: A New Role for Emotions in Epistemology?; 1 Emotion and Understanding; 2 Epistemic Immediacy, Doubt and Anxiety: On a Role for Affective States in Epistemic Evaluation; 3 Virtues, Emotions and Fallibilism; 4 Conflict Without Contradiction; 5 Epistemic Immediacy and Reflection; 6 Critical Reflections on Affective Epistemology; 7 Misleading Emotions; 8 How Cognition Meets Emotion: Beliefs, Desires and Feelings as Neural Activity; 9 Epistemic Feelings; Index. - This volume is the first collection focusing on the claim that we cannot but account for emotions if we are to understand the processes and evaluations related to empirical knowledge. All essays are specifically written for this collection by leading researchers in this relatively new and developing field, bringing together work from backgrounds such as pragmatism and skepticism, cognitive theories of emotions and cognitive science, Cartesian epistemology and virtue epistemology.
|
| Emner | |
| Sjanger | |
| Dewey | |
| ISBN | 9780754661146
|
