The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Emotion Oxford Handbooks Series

This volume contains thirty-one state-of-the-art contributions from leading figures in the study of emotion today. The volume addresses all the central philosophical issues in current emotion research, including: the nature of emotion and of emotional life; the history of emotion from Plato to Sartre; emotion and practical reason; emotion and the self; emotion, value, and morality; and emotion, art and aesthetics. Anyone interested in the philosophy of emotion, and its wide-ranging implications in other related fields such as morality and aesthetics, will want to consult this book. It will be a vital resource not only for scholars and graduate students but also for undergraduates who are finding their way into this fascinating topic.

Introduction. Part 1: What Emotions Are. 1. Concepts of Emotion in Modern Philosophy and Psychology. 2. The Thing Called Emotion. 3. Describing the Forms of Emotional Colouring that Pervade Everyday Life. 4. The Mind's Bermuda Triangle: Philosophy of Emotions and Empirical Science. Part 2: The History of Emotion. 5. Emotions in Plato and Aristotle. 6. Stoicism and Epicureanism. 7. Emotion in Medieval Thought. 8. A Sentimentalist defence of Contempt, Shame, and Disdain. 9. Emotions in Heidegger and Sartre. 10. Reinstating the Passions: Arguments from History of Psychopathology. Part 3: Emotions and Practical Reason. 11. Emotional Choice and Rational Choice. 12. Why be Emotional?. 13. Emotions and Motivation: Reconsidering Neo-Jamesian Accounts. 14. Emotions and Motivation: The Case of Fear. Part 4: Emotions and the Self. 15. The Phenomenology of Mood and the Meaning of Life. 16. Saying It. 17. Epistemic Emotions. 18. A Plea for Ambivalence. 19. Emotion, Self/Other-Awareness, and Autism: A Developmental Perspective. 20. Intellectual and Other Non-Standard Emotions. Part 5: Emotion, Value, and Morality. 21. Emotions and Values. 22. An Ethics of Emotion?. 23. The Moral Emotions. 24. Learning Emotions and Ethics. 25. Emotions and the Canons of Evaluation. 26. Demystifying Sensibilities: Sentimental Values and the Instability of Affect. Part 6: Emotion, Art, and Aesthetics. 27. Expression in the Arts. 28. Affects in Appreciation. 29. Emotions, Art, and Immorality. 30. Emotional Responses to Music: What are they? How do they work? And are they relevant to aesthetic appreciation?.

Peter Goldie was The Samuel Hall Chair of Philosophy at The University of Manchester. He is the author of The Emotions: A Philosophical Exploration (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000), On Personality (London: Routledge, 2004), and co-author of Who's Afraid of Conceptual Art (London: Routledge, 2009). He is editor of Understanding Emotions: Mind and Morals (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2002), co-editor of Philosophy and Conceptual Art (Oxford: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), and co-editor of Empathy: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).