Emotional insight : the epistemic role of emotional experience /
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Towards the perceptual model : A platitude about emotion ; Emotion, attention, and salience ; Emotion and evaluation ; Theories of emotion : Desire theories; Judgementalism; Other cognitive theories
- The perceptual model : Similarities between emotional and perceptual experience ; Literal vs non-literal versions of the perceptual model : Literal versions of the perceptual model; Non-literal versions of the perceptual model; Which version of the perceptual model should we prefer? ; Emotional experiences as reasons to believe ; A direct realist epistemology for emotion?
- Against the perceptual model ; Argument against the "default" view ; Emotion and attention revisited ; An emotional solution to an emotional problem ; Why emotion is helpful for reappraisal ; Against the perceptual model
- Emotion and understanding : In defence of the perceptual model ; A further argument against the perceptual model ; Emotional experiences as proxy reasons ; Emotion and understanding ; Understanding as our ultimate epistemic goal ; How emotions facilitate understanding ; Emotions and self-understanding
- Emotion, attention, and virtue : Emotion, attention, and reflection : Problems with emotional persistence; Problems of dissociation between emotion and reflection; Problems with emotional focus ; Virtuous habits of attention ; Virtue and understanding : Problems with emotional persistence; Problems of dissociation between emotion and reflection; Problems with emotional focus and distraction ; Does the virtuous person trust her emotional responses?