Emotions, Value, and Agency

245 Pages·2017·1.307 MB·English

by  Christine Tappolet

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Emotions, Values, and Agency
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Emotions, Values,
and Agency
Christine Tappolet
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For my mother Ursula and my father Luc, as well as for
Philippe, with whom I have been sailing for many a year
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Origins
The present book supersedes, I trust, my previously published work on
these matters. This being said, all but Chapter4 draw in part on pub-
lishedworks,asfollows.
Chapter1 develops ideas presented in the book that arose from my
PhDthesis,EmotionsetValeurs(Paris:PressesUniversitairesdeFrance,
2000),aswellasin“Emotions,Perceptions,andEmotionalIllusions,”in
ClotildeCalabi(ed.),PerceptualIllusions:PhilosophicalandPsychological
Essays,Houndsmill:Palgrave-Macmillan,2012,207–24.
Chapter2drawsonandexpands“Emotions,Action,andMotivation:
TheCaseofFear,”inPeterGoldie(ed.),OxfordHandbookofPhilosophy
ofEmotion,Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,2010,325–45.
Chapter3ispartlybasedon“ValuesandEmotions:TheProspectsof
Neo-Sentimentalism,”inCarlaBagnoli(ed.),MoralityandtheEmotions,
Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,2011,117–34;andmakesuseofsome
ideaspresentedinapapercowrittenwithMauroRossi:“WhatIsValue?
Where Does It Come From? A Philosophical Perspective,” in Tobias
Brosch,DavidSanderetal.(eds),TheHandbookofValue:TheAffective
SciencesofValuesandValuation,Oxford,OxfordUniversityPress,2015.
Chapter5 also draws on Emotions et Valeurs as regards epistemo-
logical issues, and expands ideas presented in “Emotions, Reasons, and
Autonomy,” in Andrea Veltman and Mark C. Piper (eds), Autonomy,
Oppression and Gender, New York: Oxford University Press, 2014,
163–80.
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Contents
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
1. EmotionandPerception 1
1.1. SketchingtheLandscape 1
1.2. TheoriesofEmotion 8
1.3. ThePerceptualTheory 15
1.4. TheDisanalogiesBetweenEmotionsandSensoryExperiences 24
1.5. TheIrrationalityofEmotions 31
1.6. TwoFurtherObjections 39
Conclusion 45
2. EmotionandMotivation 47
2.1. FearandtheFearsome 50
2.2. MotivationalModularity 52
2.3. TheDesireTheory 58
2.4. FearingFictions 64
2.5. MotivationalEgoism 66
2.6. GeneralizingtheAccount 72
2.7. TheDirectionofFitObjection 76
Conclusion 78
3. EmotionandValues 79
3.1. TheAttractionsofSentimentalism 81
3.2. TwoVersionsofNeo-Sentimentalism 85
3.3. TheOpenQuestionArgumentandtheNormativity
Requirement 90
3.4. ValuesandtheJustificationofAction 92
3.5. TheWrongKindofReasonObjection 95
3.6. CircularityThreats 98
3.7. TheSolitaryGoodObjectionandtheDistanceProblem 103
3.8. GeneralizingRepresentationalNeo-Sentimentalism 110
3.9. SentimentalRealism 116
Conclusion 121
4. EmotionandResponsibility 123
4.1. StrawsonandReactiveAttitudes 126
4.2. ResponsibilityAnalyzed? 129
4.3. TheAsymmetryProblem 133