Mixed feelings : emotional phenomena, rationality and vagueness / Marion Ledwig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ledwig, Marion.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions (Philosophy).

Reason.

Vagueness (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt ; New Brunswick : Ontos Verlag, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book opens up a new area of research by not only considering the rationality of such diverse phenomena as ordinary emotions, generalized anxiety disorder, social phobia, psychotic depression, major depressive disorder, and bipolar disorder, but also by evaluating the question whether the vagueness of these diverse disorders and emotions poses an obstacle to the rationality of these phenomena. As these emotional phenomena turn out to be vague on many different levels, an explanation is found for the millennia long dispute of which kind of phenomena fall under the emotions and whether such diverse phenomena as hope and alexithymia fall under the emotions. Since vagueness can be most easily identified in mixed feelings, the rationality of mixed feelings will also be dealt with.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Acknowledgments

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Vagueness

Chapter 2. Emotion Theories

Chapter 3. The Brain and the Emotions

Chapter 4. The Rational Functions of the Emotions

Chapter 5. Hope and Alexithymia

Chapter 6. Vagueness and Rationality in Mixed Feelings

Chapter 7. Vagueness and Rationality in Anxiety Disorders

Chapter 8. Vagueness and Rationality in Moods

Bibliography

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3-86838-031-0

3-11-031945-4

OCLC:

851972069