For thousands of years, many Western thinkers have assumed that emotions are, at best, harmless luxuries, and at worst outright obstacles to intelligent action. In the past decade, however, scientists and philosophers have begun to challenge this 'negative view of emotion'. Neuroscientists, psychologists and researchers in artificial intelligence now agree that emotions are vital to intelligent action. Evolutionary considerations have played a vital role in this shift to a more positive view of emotion. This book brings together some of the leading thinkers about emotion from a variety of disciplines. In a series of fascinating and challenging essays, they examine the role that evolutionary considerations can play in helping us to understand the role of emotions in rational thought and decision-making. How should we understand the evolutionary role of emotions? And can this explain the relationship between emotions and rationality?
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... a wealth of well-presented empirical findings, rich theorising and thought-provoking debate. The book should serve as an excellent summary of the current status of this fascinating and useful area and deserves to be widely read by any who are interested in the relation between cognition and emotion, in particular, perhaps, by those involved in the development of cognitive treatments for emotional disorders. The Psychologist Emotion, Evolution and Rationality does an excellent job at clarifying the confusion surrounding an important area of evolutionary psychology - why emotions have evolved in humans. The Psychologist
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Dylan Evans is at Centre for Biomimetics and Natural Technology, University of Bath, Bath, UK. Pierre Cruse is at Centre de Philosophie des Sciences, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
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epistemic landscape, elicitation files, distaste response, umbrella view, nomological view, unjustified emotions, demeaning offence, aggression signals, core relational theme, hybrid view, intentional psychology, intentional effects, anger condition, emotional appraisal, paternal genes, virtue epistemology, anger incidents, amygdala damage, appraisal theory, appraisal mechanism, facial expression recognition, amygdala lesions, human amygdala, unreasonable anger, body input Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Big Six, William James, Brain Research, Academic Press, Psychological Review, Harvard University Press, Behavioral Neuroscience, Psychological Science, Philosophy of Science, Princeton University Press, Guilford Press, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience, Peter Goldie, Psychological Bulletin, University of Chicago Press, American Psychologist, Antonio Damasio, Chicago University Press, Child Development, John Wiley, Nature Neuroscience New!
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