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Emotional Insight - The Epistemic Role of Emotional Experience (Paperback)
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Emotional Insight - The Epistemic Role of Emotional Experience (Paperback)
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Michael S. Brady presents a fresh perspective on how to understand
the difference that emotions can make to our lives. It is a
commonplace that emotions can give us information about the world:
we are told, for instance, that sometimes it is a good idea to
'listen to our heart' when trying to figure out what to believe. In
particular, many people think that emotions can give us information
about value: fear can inform us about danger, guilt about moral
wrongs, pride about achievement. But how are we to understand the
positive contribution that emotions can make to our beliefs in
general, and to our beliefs about value in particular? And what are
the conditions in which emotions make such a contribution?
Emotional Insight aims to answer these questions. In doing so it
illuminates a central tenet of common-sense thinking, contributes
to an on-going debate in the philosophy of emotion, and illustrates
something important about the nature of emotion itself. For a
central claim of the book is that we should reject the idea that
emotional experiences give us information in the same way that
perceptual experiences do. The book rejects, in other words, the
Perceptual Model of emotion. Instead, the epistemological story
that the book tells will be grounded in a novel and distinctive
account of what emotions are and what emotions do. On this account,
emotions help to serve our epistemic needs by capturing our
attention, and by facilitating a reassessment or reappraisal of the
evaluative information that emotions themselves provide. As a
result, emotions can promote understanding of and insight into
ourselves and our evaluative landscape.
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