Epistemology and Emotions (Ashgate Epistemology and Mind Series) (Hardcover)

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Undoubtedly, emotions sometimes thwart our epistemic endeavours. But do they also contribute to epistemic success? The thesis that emotions "skew the epistemic landscape", as Peter Goldie puts it in this volume, has long been discussed in epistemology. Recently, however, philosophers have called for a systematic reassessment of the epistemic relevance of emotions. The resulting debate at the interface between epistemology, theory of emotions and cognitive science examines emotions in a wide range of functions. These include motivating inquiry, establishing relevance, as well as providing access to facts, beliefs and non-propositional aspects of knowledge.This volume is the first collection focusing on the claim that we cannot but account for emotions if we are to understand the processes and evaluations related to empirical knowledge. All essays are specifically written for this collection by leading researchers in this relatively new and developing field, bringing together work from backgrounds such as pragmatism and scepticism, cognitive theories of emotions and cognitive science, Cartesian epistemology and virtue epistemology.

About the Author
Georg Brun, Senior Research Fellow, Environmental Philosophy Group, Department of Environmental Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Ulvi Doguoglu, Research Associate, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland and Dominique Kuenzle, Research Assistant, Department of Philosophy, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

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misleading emotions, inclusive project, intellectual virtue, epistemic feelings, conflict without contradiction, intellectually humble person, initial tenability, emotional deliverances, epistemic immediacy, epistemic yield, perceptual deliverances, epistemic behaviour, epistemic actor, epistemic landscape, affective valuations, environmental mismatch, epistemic success, deliberative thinking, immediate valuations, epistemic anxiety, expected desirability, tenable system, emotional valuations, virtue epistemology, robust traits Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Oxford University Press, Affective Epistemology, New York, Cambridge University Press, Clarendon Press, Critical Reflections, The Rationality of Emotion, Philosophical Studies, Traditional Project, Regulation Principle, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Princeton University Press, Articulation Principle, Epistemic Character Thesis, The Adaptive Toolbox, Harvard University Press, Philosophical Quarterly, University of Chicago Press, Peter Goldie, The Problem of Psychological Categories, Linda Zagzebski, Treatise of Human Nature, Ronald de Sousa, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Oeuvres de Descartes Browse Sample Pages:
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