The Rationality of Emotion (A Bradford Book) - Hardcover

De Sousa, Ronald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262040921 ISBN 13: 9780262040921

Verlag: MIT Press, 1987

Inhaltsangabe

In this urbane and witty book, Ronald de Sousa disputes the widespread notion that reason and emotion are natural antagonists. He argues that emotions are a kind of perception, that their roots in the paradigm scenarios in which they are learned give them an essentially dramatic structure, and that they have a crucial role to-play in rational beliefs, desires, and decisions by breaking the deadlocks of pure reason.

The book's twelve chapters take up the following topics: alternative models of mind and emotion; the relation between evolutionary, physiological, and social factors in emotions; a taxonomy of objects of emotions; assessments of emotions for correctness and rationality; the regulation by emotions of logical and practical reasoning; emotion and time; the mechanism of emotional self-deception; the ethics of laughter; and the roles of emotions in the conduct of life. There is also an illustrative interlude, in the form of a lively dialogue about the ideology of love, jealousy, and sexual exclusiveness.

Ronald de Sousa teaches philosophy at the University of Toronto. A Bradford Book.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1987
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0262040921
• ISBN 13: 9780262040921
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 395
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