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Emotions, Values, and Agency (Hardcover)
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Emotions, Values, and Agency (Hardcover)
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The emotions we experience are crucial to who we are, to what we
think, and to what we do. But what are emotions, exactly, and how
do they relate to agency? The aim of this book is to spell out an
account of emotions, which is grounded on analogies between
emotions and sensory experiences, and to explore the implications
of this account for our understanding of human agency. The central
claim is that emotions consist in perceptual experiences of values,
such as the fearsome, the disgusting or the admirable. A virtue of
this account is that it affords a better grasp of a variety of
interconnected phenomena, such as motivation, values,
responsibility and reason-responsiveness. In the process of
exploring the implications of the Perceptual Theory of emotions,
several claims are proposed. First, emotions normally involve
desires that set goals, but they can be contemplative in that they
can occur without any motivation. Second, evaluative judgements can
be understood in terms of appropriate emotions in so far as
appropriateness is taken to consist in correct representation.
Third, by contrast with what Strawsonian theories hold, the concept
of moral responsibility is not response-dependent, but the
relationship between emotions and moral responsibility is mediated
by values. Finally, in so far as emotions are perceptions of
values, they can be considered to be perceptions of practical
reasons, so that on certain conditions, acting on the basis of
one's emotions can consist in responding to one's reasons.
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