Emotions and Reasons
Author | : Patricia S. Greenspan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2014-02-25 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781317857082 |
ISBN-13 | : 1317857089 |
Rating | : 4/5 (089 Downloads) |
Download or read book Emotions and Reasons written by Patricia S. Greenspan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Emotions and Reasons, Patricia Greenspan offers an evaluative theory of emotion that assigns emotion a role of its own in the justification of action. She analyzes emotions as states of object-directed affect with evaluative propositional content possibly falling short of belief and held in mind by generalized comfort or discomfort.