0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Social sciences > Psychology > States of consciousness > Drug-induced states

Not currently available

The Anxious Mind - An Investigation into the Varieties and Virtues of Anxiety (Hardcover) Loot Price: R759
Discovery Miles 7 590
You Save: R88 (10%)
The Anxious Mind - An Investigation into the Varieties and Virtues of Anxiety (Hardcover): Charlie Kurth

The Anxious Mind - An Investigation into the Varieties and Virtues of Anxiety (Hardcover)

Charlie Kurth

Series: The MIT Press

 (sign in to rate)
List price R847 Loot Price R759 Discovery Miles 7 590 | Repayment Terms: R71 pm x 12* You Save R88 (10%)

Bookmark and Share

Supplier out of stock. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available.

An empirically informed, philosophical account of the nature of anxiety and its value for agency, virtue, and decision making. In The Anxious Mind, Charlie Kurth offers a philosophical account of anxiety in its various forms, investigating its nature and arguing for its value in agency, virtue, and decision making. Folk wisdom tells us that anxiety is unpleasant and painful, and scholarly research seems to provide empirical and philosophical confirmation of this. But Kurth points to anxiety's positive effects: enhancing performance, facilitating social interaction, and even contributing to moral thought and action. Kurth argues that an empirically informed philosophical account of anxiety can help us understand the nature and value of emotions, and he offers just such an account. He develops a model of anxiety as a bio-cognitive emotion-anxiety is an aversive emotional response to uncertainty about threats or challenges-and shows that this model captures the diversity in the types of anxiety we experience. Building on this, he considers a range of issues in moral psychology and ethical theory. He explores the ways in which anxiety can be valuable, arguing that anxiety can be a fitting response and that it undergirds an important form of moral concern. He considers anxiety's role in deliberation and decision making, using the examples of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the abolitionist John Woolman to show that anxiety can be a mechanism of moral progress. Drawing on insights from psychiatry and clinical psychology, Kurth argues that we can cultivate anxiety so that we are better able to experience it at the right time and in the right way.

General

Imprint: MIT Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: The MIT Press
Release date: April 2018
First published: 2018
Authors: Charlie Kurth (Associate Professor)
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-03765-5
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind
Books > Social sciences > Psychology > States of consciousness > Drug-induced states
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind
LSN: 0-262-03765-3
Barcode: 9780262037655

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

Partners