Emotional insight : the epistemic role of emotional experience / Michael S. Brady.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brady, Michael S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions.

Emotions (Philosophy).

Emotions and cognition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 204 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Epistemic role of emotional experience

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Michael S. Brady offers an account of the role of emotions in our lives. He argues that emotional experiences do not give us information in the same way that perceptual experiences do.

Contents:

Towards the perceptual model : A platitude about emotion ; Emotion, attention, and salience ; Emotion and evaluation ; Theories of emotion : Desire theories; Judgementalism; Other cognitive theories

The perceptual model : Similarities between emotional and perceptual experience ; Literal vs non-literal versions of the perceptual model : Literal versions of the perceptual model; Non-literal versions of the perceptual model; Which version of the perceptual model should we prefer? ; Emotional experiences as reasons to believe ; A direct realist epistemology for emotion?

Against the perceptual model ; Argument against the "default" view ; Emotion and attention revisited ; An emotional solution to an emotional problem ; Why emotion is helpful for reappraisal ; Against the perceptual model

Emotion and understanding : In defence of the perceptual model ; A further argument against the perceptual model ; Emotional experiences as proxy reasons ; Emotion and understanding ; Understanding as our ultimate epistemic goal ; How emotions facilitate understanding ; Emotions and self-understanding

Emotion, attention, and virtue : Emotion, attention, and reflection : Problems with emotional persistence; Problems of dissociation between emotion and reflection; Problems with emotional focus ; Virtuous habits of attention ; Virtue and understanding : Problems with emotional persistence; Problems of dissociation between emotion and reflection; Problems with emotional focus and distraction ; Does the virtuous person trust her emotional responses?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 14, 2013).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-102258-6

0-19-877688-8

0-19-150873-X

OCLC:

867641253