Emotion

Carolyn Price is a lecturer at the Open University. She joined the department in February 2000, having spent eight years as a Lecturer and Tutor at St Hugh's College, Oxford. Her research interests lie in the Philosophy of Mind: she is particularly interested in questions about meaning, rationality and emotion, and the connections between them.

• Contents Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Four theories of emotion Chapter 3 Emotion, coherence and function Chapter 4 What is an emotion? Chapter 5 What is an emotional evaluation? Chapter 6 What are emotional evaluations about? Chapter 7 The rationality of emotion Chapter 8 The manipulation of emotion Conclusion Glossary Notes References

"In this short book Carolyn Price elegantly condenses a sophisticated understanding of the philosophy of emotion into eight very readable chapters. While offering a novel explanation and defence of a functionalist, teleosemantic position, the book also situates this position clearly and fairly in wider philosophical debates about emotion. As such, Price's measured assessments of alternative positions also offer an excellent introduction to readers who are new to this important and emerging topic. The book will be stimulating reading for students and researchers alike."Christopher Bennett, University of Sheffield"This is a splendid book: clearly written, empirically informed, philosophically astute, and a pleasure to read. It contains a wealth of good arguments, and makes interesting and original points on all of the central issues in the philosophy of emotion. Highly recommended."Michael Brady, University of Glasgow