Emotions and Understanding: Wittgensteinian Perspectives

by Y. Gustafsson, C. Kronqvist, M. McEachrane

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349299584
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2009
Edition description:	1st ed. 2009
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d)

About the Author

JOHN V. CANFIELD is Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, Canada ALICE CRARY is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, New York, USA DAVID COCKBURN is Professor of Philosophy at University of Wales Lampeter, UK PETER M.S. HACKER is an Emeritus Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford, UK LARS HERTZBERG is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Åbo Akademi University, Finland PHIL HUTCHINSON is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK DANIÈLE MOYAL-SHARROCK is a Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, UK DUNCAN RICHTER is Professor of Philosophy at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia, USA RUPERT READ is a Reader in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK JOACHIM SCHULTE teaches at the University of Zürich, Switzerland

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Wittgensteinian Perspectives on the Philosophy Of Emotion - Introducing the Chapters of this Anthology; Y.Gustafsson, C.Kronqvist& M.McEachrane Wittgenstein's Commonsense Realism about the Mind; A.Crary Wittgenstein on Emotion; J.Schulte The Conceptual Framework for the Investigation of Emotions; P.M.S.Hacker Emotion-Philosophy-Science; P.Hutchinson Capturing Emotional Thoughts - The Philosophy of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy; M.McEachrane The Self and the Emotions; J.V.Canfield What's in a Smile?; L.Hertzberg Emotion, Expression and Conversation; D.Cockburn Illusions of Empathy; Y.Gustafsson The Fiction of Paradox: Really Feeling for Anna Karenina; D.Moyal-Sharrock On The Pursuit of Happiness; D.Richter Our Struggles with Reality; C.Kronqvist Extreme Aversive Emotions – A Wittgensteinian Approach to Dread; R.Read Index