Title: Emotion and value /
Authors: Roeser, Sabine,; Todd, Cain Samuel, 1976-
Year: 2014
Subjects: Emotions (Philosophy); Ethics; Values
Abstract: This volume brings together new work by leading philosophers on emotion and value. They address questions including the role of emotions in practical rationality and moral psychology, the connection between imagination and emotion, and the ability of emotions to ground ethical or aesthetic judgements.
Contents: In what sense are emotions evaluations? / Julien A. Deonna and Fabrice Teroni -- Evaluative phenomenology / Michelle Montague -- Emotion, attention, and the nature of value / Michael Brady -- Emotions as unitary states / Jonathan Dancy -- Relatively fitting emotions and apparently objective values / Cain Todd -- Emotion, evaluative perception, and epistemic justification / Adam C. Pelser -- Why recalcitrant emotions are not irrational / Sabine A. Döring -- Surprise / Adam Morton -- Emotions fit for fiction / Greg Currie -- Emotional self-trust / Linda Zagzebski -- Self-empathy and moral repair / Nancy Sherman -- Emotions and the virtues of self-understanding / Michael Lacewing -- Emotion and agency / Jan Slaby and Philipp Wüschner -- Evaluating existential despair / Matthew Ratcliffe.