Passions and the Emotions: Volume 85 Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements Series

This volume is based on The Royal Institute of Philosophy's London Lecture series for 2017?18. It consists of fourteen original papers in which leading philosophers consider key concepts in the area, including those of passion and emotion, and their intentionality, as well as love, guilt, forgiveness, desire and regret. The relationships between the passions and religious belief and to aesthetics are also analysed, alongside the ethical and psychoanalytical implications of our emotions. Connexions between the passions and our reading of fiction and our response to developments in technology are considered, as is the work of Descartes, Spinoza, Nietzsche, William James and R. G. Collingwood. This book will be an essential compendium to contemporary work in the area.

1. Love, guilt, and forgiveness Eleonore Stump; 2. Ruly and unruly passions: Early Modern perspectives Elizabeth S. Radcliffe; 3. Lange vs James on emotion, passion, and the arts Paisley Livingston; 4. The passions and religious belief John Cottingham; 5. The evaluative content of emotion Patricia Greenspan; 6. Passion for the art of morally responsible technology development Sabine Roeser and Steffen Steinert; 7. The aesthetic dimension of passion Sebastian Gardner; 8. Why you'll regret not reading this paper Mark Schroeder; 9. The quest for God: rethinking desire Fiona Ellis; 10. A truthful way to live? Objectivity, ethics and psychoanalysis Michael Lacewing; 11. Responding emotionally to fiction: a Spinozist approach Susan James; 12. The persuasive use of emotions Jamie Dow; 13. How to make the passions active: Spinoza and R. G. Collingwood Alexander Douglas; 14. Emotional intentionality Matthew Ratcliffe.