Overview
Collates twelve full-length articles by leading and up-and-coming academics on the exciting topic of philosophy of emotions
Focuses on the different roles that emotions play in our life, particularly their role in knowledge
Investigates the epistemological value of emotions in reasoning, a prominent research programme in the cognitive sciences
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction
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Emotional Rationality
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The Epistemic Value of Emotions in Self-Understanding
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The Epistemic Value of Negative Emotions and Suffering
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The Epistemic Value of Group Level Emotions and Moods
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About this book
This innovative new volume analyses the role of emotions in knowledge acquisition. It focuses on the field of philosophy of emotions at the exciting intersection between epistemology and philosophy of mind and cognitive science to bring us an in-depth analysis of the epistemological value of emotions in reasoning.
With twelve chapters by leading and up-and-coming academics, this edited collection shows that emotions do count for our epistemic enterprise. Against scepticism about the possible positive role emotions play in knowledge, the authors highlight the how and the why of this potential, lucidly exploring the key aspects of the functionality of emotions. This is explored in relation to: specific kinds of knowledge such as self-understanding, group-knowledge and wisdom; specific functions played by certain emotions in these cases, such as disorientation in enquiry and contempt in practical reason; the affective experience of the epistemic subjects and communities.
Reviews
“There has been an upsurge of interesting work on the emotions in recent years, drawing on a range of disciplines. This volume brings together a number of fascinating snapshots of this work, and in the process advances the debate still further. Essential reading for anyone working on the emotions." (Duncan Pritchard, Chancellor’s Professor of Philosophy, UC Irvine & Professor of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, UK)
“Philosophical work on emotion has arrived the very heart of our discipline. This superbly curated collection shows how rigorous, inventive and encompassing philosophers of emotion tackle key issues in the theory and ethics of knowing. I’m particularly struck by how smoothly historical and systematic perspectives get interwoven to challenge established ways of construing knowledge. Essential reading for epistemologists, ethicists and emotion scholars alike.” (Jan Slaby, Professor of Philosophy of Mind at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Laura Candiotto is von Humboldt Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Free University of Berlin, Germany. Her research on emotions merges her interest in social epistemology and philosophy of mind, social ontology, theories of happiness and well-being, and the history of philosophy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Value of Emotions for Knowledge
Editors: Laura Candiotto
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15667-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15666-4Published: 08 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-15667-1Published: 23 April 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 310
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Social Philosophy