Evaluating Emotions
How are emotions related to values? This book argues against a perceptual theory of emotions, which sees emotions as perception-like states that help us gain evaluative knowledge, and argues for a caring-based theory of emotions, which sees emotions as fe
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Evaluating Emotions Eva-Maria Düringer University of Tübingen, Germany
© Eva-Maria Düringer 2014 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-38979-4 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2014 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-48252-8 ISBN 978-1-137-38980-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137389800 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Düringer, Eva-Maria, 1980– Evaluating emotions / Eva-Maria Düringer, University of Tübingen, Germany pages cm Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-1-349-48252-8 1. Emotions (Philosophy) I. Title. B815.D87 2014 1289.37—dc23
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Contents List of Figures
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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The Analogy between Emotions and Judgements 1.1 The analogy as it appears 1.2 The analogy as it should be The Analogy between Values and Secondary Qualities 2.1 McDowell’s account of values 2.2 The threat of relativism and the option of rigidification 2.3 The concept of merit and circularity
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Arguments from Best Explanation 3.1 Explaining intelligibility: feeling revulsion and turning doorknobs 3.2 Explaining actions expressing emotions: scratching out eyes on a photograph
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The Functional Argument 4.1 The idea: representing values by registering bodily changes 4.2 The Pugmire objection 4.3 The objection from function and emotions as pushmi-pullyu representations 4.4 Emotions as bodily c
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