Emotion, Evolution and Rationality

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

AvDylan Evans,Pierre Cruse,UK) Evans, Dylan (, Senior Lecturer in Intelligent Autonomous Systems, CEMS, University of the West of England, Bristol,Belgium) Cruse, Pierre (, Centre de Philosophie des Sciences, Universite Catholique de Louvain

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For thousands of years, many Western thinkers have assumed that emotions are, at best, harmless luxuries, and at worst outright obstacles to intelligent action. In the past decade, however, scientists and philosophers have begun to challenge this 'negative view of emotion'. Neuroscientists, psychologists and researchers in artificial intelligence now agree that emotions are vital to intelligent action. Evolutionary considerations have played a vital role in this shift to a more positive view of emotion.This book brings together some of the leading thinkers about emotion from a variety of disciplines. In a series of fascinating and challenging essays, they examine the role that evolutionary considerations can play in helping us to understand the role of emotions in rational thought and decision-making. How should we understand the evolutionary role of emotions? And can this explain the relationship between emotions and rationality?

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Utgivningsdatum2004-04-15
Mått157 x 233 x 16 mm
Vikt461 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor292
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198528982

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PART I - NEUROSCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS ; 1. William James and the modern neurobiology of emotion ; 2. Homologizing human emotions ; PART II - EMOTION, BELIEF AND APPRAISAL ; 3. Emotional behaviour and the scope of belief-desire explanation ; 4. Which emotions are basic? ; 5. Towards a 'Machiavellian' theory of emotional appraisal ; 6. Unpicking reasonable emotions ; PART III - EVOLUTION AND THE RATIONALITY OF EMOTION ; 7. Evolution, culture and the irrationality of the emotions ; 8. The role of emotions in ecological and practical rationality ; 9. The search hypothesis of emotion ; 10. Adaptive illusions: optimism, control and human rationality ; 11. Emotion versus reason as a genetic conflict ; PART IV - PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ; 12. Conscience and conflict: Darwin, Freud and the origins of human aggression ; 13. Emotion, reason and virtue

... a wealth of well-presented empirical findings, rich theorising and thought-provoking debate. The book should serve as an excellent summary of the current status of this fascinating and useful area and deserves to be widely read by any who are interested in the relation between cognition and emotion, in particular, perhaps, by those involved in the development of cognitive treatments for emotional disorders.

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