Emotions and Understanding: Wittgensteinian Perspectives

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Ylva Gustafsson, Camilla Kronqvist, Michael McEachrane
Palgrave Macmillan, Jan 15, 2009 - Philosophy - 304 pages
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This unique collection of articles on emotion by Wittgensteinian philosophers provides a fresh perspective on the questions framing the current philosophical and scientific debates about emotions and offers significant insights into the role of emotions for understanding interpersonal relations and the relation between emotion and ethics.

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Contents

Kva Gustafsson Camilla Kronqvist and Michael McEachrane
12
Wittgenstein on Emotion
27
The Conceptual Framework for the Investigation
43
Copyright

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action afraid anger Anna Karenina argue beauty Beck behaviour beliefs Blackwell bodily expression central chapter claim client Cognitive Therapy cognitive-behavioral therapy cognitivism cognitivists commonsense realism concepts connection context Damasio David Cockburn Deigh depression Descartes describe discussion distinction dread Ellis emotions empathy ethics example experience face fact fear feel fictional characters Goldie grief Griffiths happiness human idea imagine important instance involves kind Lamarque language language-games literature Martha Nussbaum means mental mind moral neocortex object one's Oxford University Press pain particular pattern person perspective Peter Hacker philosophy of mind Philosophy of Psychology picture pleasure predicates Prinz problem propositional attitude psychological question rational reactions reality reason relation relevant remarks response role Rosamond sensations sense simply situation smile Solomon somatic someone speak suggest supervenience talk Therapy things thought tion understanding Wittgenstein words or images

About the author (2009)

YLVA GUSTAFSSON researches and teaches at the Department of Philosophy at bo Akademi University, Finland. Her interests in philosophy are; moral philosophy, philosophy of psychology and philosophy of anthropology.

CAMILLA KRONQVIST researches and teaches at bo Akademi University, Finland. Her research interests include moral philosophy, the philosophy of psychology and feminist philosophy.

MICHAEL McEACHRANE is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. Among his research interests are the philosophy of psychology and the philosophy of race. He has published a number of articles and co-edited Sverige och de Andra: Postkoloniala Perspektiv (2001).

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TitleEmotions and Understanding: Wittgensteinian Perspectives
EditorsYlva Gustafsson, Camilla Kronqvist, Michael McEachrane
Editionillustrated
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan, 2009
Original fromthe University of California
DigitizedMay 15, 2009
ISBN023020144X, 9780230201446
Length304 pages
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