Emotional Self-Knowledge

Alba Montes Sánchez is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Subjectivity Research in Copenhagen, Denmark. She has published widely on the phenomenology and moral psychology of self-conscious emotions like shame, pride, and envy, in journals like European Journal of Philosophy or Frontiers in Psychology and collective volumes in Routledge or Cambridge University Press. Alessandro Salice is a Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy of University College Cork, Ireland, and a Research Associate at the Center for Subjectivity Research in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has extensively published on a variety of topics mainly related to phenomenology, philosophical psychology, philosophy of action, social ontology, and moral psychology. His current work develops along two general directions: he continues to address various systematic issues concerning human sociality by also exploring the philosophical potential of phenomenology.

• Introduction: Self-Knowledge and Emotion Alba Montes Sánchez and Alessandro Salice Part 1: Affectivity and Self-Knowledge 1. Affective Forecasting and Substantial Self-Knowledge Uku Tooming and Kengo Miyazono 2. Alienated Emotions and Self-Knowledge Krista K. Thomason 3. Acquiring Self-Knowledge from Others Edward Harcourt 4. Emotions and the Contestation of Social Identities Bennett W. Helm 5. Emotion, Self-Knowledge, and Liberation in Indian Philosophy Matt MacKenzie Part 2: The Emotions, Self-Knowledge and Self-Ignorance 6. Good Enough to Be Myself?: The Fraught Relationship Between Self-Esteem and Self-Knowledge Anna Bortolan 7. Three Stages of Love, Narrative, and Self-Understanding Pilar Lopez-Cantero 8. Transitional Boredom: On Boredom and Self-Knowledge Antonio Gómez Ramos 9. Envy, Racial Hatred, and Self-Deception Alessandro Salice and Alba Montes Sánchez 10. Hostile Affective States and Their Self-Deceptive Styles: Envy and Hate Íngrid Vendrell Ferran

"Emotional self-knowledge is a new subject area in the intersection so far largely separate fields of philosophy of self-knowledge and philosophy of emotions. This book brings together leading experts from both fields to address questions about the role and reliability of emotions as sources of self-understanding. The scholarship in this innovative book is first-rate, and the editors and contributors are established scholars representing both analytical and phenomenological approaches to philosophy."Mikko Salmela, University of Copenhagen, Denmark"This outstanding volume introduces a wide array of interesting and original perspectives on the neglected role of emotion for self-knowledge and self-understanding. It fills a crucial gap in the extant literature on the epistemic significance of affectivity."Jean Moritz Müller, University of Bonn, Germany