Deweyan Philosophical Take on Emotions

Dina Mendonca is research fellow at Instituto de Filosofia da Nova in Lisbon, Portugal. She received her Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina, and has published widely on American pragmatism and Philosophy for Children. Her teaching also focuses on the role of writing for thinking, and how philosophy can be an aid for creative processes.

• Part I. The proposal: A Layered Theory of Emotions.- 1. A Layered Theory of Emotion.- 2. Dewey’s Concept of Experience.- 3. Following a Deweyan insights: The Pattern of Sentiment.- Part II. Consequences of a Layered Emotion Theory.- 4. Meta-emotions.- 5. Various Levels of Emotional Depth.- 6. Intentionality of Emotions.- 7. Habit and thinking.- 8. Emotions in the Social Sphere.- 9. Logic of Emotion.- Part III. Insights from Emotion Research.- 10. A New Proposal for Philosophy of Mind.- 11. Education of Emotion and Pervasive Quality for Thinking.