The Emotions: A Philosophical Exploration
Peter Goldie
Abstract
The central aim of the book is to give a deeper and wider understanding of emotion, and of related phenomena, such as consciousness, thought, feeling, imagination, expressive action, mood, and character. A key theme is the idea of a personal perspective or point of view, as contrasted with the impersonal stance of the empirical sciences. It is only from the personal perspective that thoughts, reasons, feelings, and actions—commonsense psychology—come into view. The book endorses the view that the emotions are intentional, but resists the thought that this intentionality can be fully captured w ... More
Keywords: character, commonsense psychology, emotions, feeling towards, intentionality, mood, narrative, personal perspective
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2002 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199253043 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 | DOI:10.1093/0199253048.001.0001 |
