Rick Anthony Furtak is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colorado College, where he has taught for over twelve years. His research focuses on philosophy of emotions and existential thought. He is also a poet and translator.

• DedicationAcknowledgments Part One: The Rational and the Passionate1. The Intelligence of Emotions: Differing Schools of Thought2. What the Empirical Evidence Suggests Part Two: On Reasonable Feelings and Embodied Cognition3. Feeling Apprehensive4. Emotions as Felt Recognitions Part Three: The Reasons of the Heart5. On the Emotional A Priori6. Love's Knowledge; or, The Significance of What We Care About7. Attunement and Perspectival Truth Bibliography of Works Cited

In laying the foundations for his own argument, Furtak provides an excellent overview of the dominant theories of emotion and how they have been taken up by philosophers without reflection on the ongoing developments in psychology and neurobiology.

Rick Anthony Furtak is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colorado College, where he has taught for over twelve years. His research focuses on philosophy of emotions and existential thought. He is also a poet and translator.

• DedicationAcknowledgments Part One: The Rational and the Passionate1. The Intelligence of Emotions: Differing Schools of Thought2. What the Empirical Evidence Suggests Part Two: On Reasonable Feelings and Embodied Cognition3. Feeling Apprehensive4. Emotions as Felt Recognitions Part Three: The Reasons of the Heart5. On the Emotional A Priori6. Love's Knowledge; or, The Significance of What We Care About7. Attunement and Perspectival Truth Bibliography of Works Cited

In laying the foundations for his own argument, Furtak provides an excellent overview of the dominant theories of emotion and how they have been taken up by philosophers without reflection on the ongoing developments in psychology and neurobiology.

Rick Anthony Furtak is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colorado College, where he has taught for over twelve years. His research focuses on philosophy of emotions and existential thought. He is also a poet and translator.

• DedicationAcknowledgments Part One: The Rational and the Passionate1. The Intelligence of Emotions: Differing Schools of Thought2. What the Empirical Evidence Suggests Part Two: On Reasonable Feelings and Embodied Cognition3. Feeling Apprehensive4. Emotions as Felt Recognitions Part Three: The Reasons of the Heart5. On the Emotional A Priori6. Love's Knowledge; or, The Significance of What We Care About7. Attunement and Perspectival Truth Bibliography of Works Cited

In laying the foundations for his own argument, Furtak provides an excellent overview of the dominant theories of emotion and how they have been taken up by philosophers without reflection on the ongoing developments in psychology and neurobiology.