Epistemology and Emotions

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A01=Georg Brun
A01=Ulvi Doguoglu
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Affective Epistemology
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Author_Ulvi Doguoglu
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Deliberative Thinking
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Energy Resources
Environmental Mismatch
epistemic
Epistemic Activities
Epistemic Agents
Epistemic Behaviour
Epistemic Emotions
Epistemic Evaluation
Epistemic Feelings
Epistemic Immediacy
Epistemic Landscape
Epistemic Standing
Epistemic Success
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Intellectual Virtues
Knowledge Acquisition
Male Sexual Jealousy
Motivated Inference
Mr Cool
Neural Population
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propositional
Propositional Attitudes
Representational Content
response
Response Dependent Properties
Virtue Epistemologists
Virtue Reliabilism

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  • ISBN 9781138245808
  • Weight: 410g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Oct 2016
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Undoubtedly, emotions sometimes thwart our epistemic endeavours. But do they also contribute to epistemic success? The thesis that emotions 'skew the epistemic landscape', as Peter Goldie puts it in this volume, has long been discussed in epistemology. Recently, however, philosophers have called for a systematic reassessment of the epistemic relevance of emotions. The resulting debate at the interface between epistemology, theory of emotions and cognitive science examines emotions in a wide range of functions. These include motivating inquiry, establishing relevance, as well as providing access to facts, beliefs and non-propositional aspects of knowledge. This volume is the first collection focusing on the claim that we cannot but account for emotions if we are to understand the processes and evaluations related to empirical knowledge. All essays are specifically written for this collection by leading researchers in this relatively new and developing field, bringing together work from backgrounds such as pragmatism and scepticism, cognitive theories of emotions and cognitive science, Cartesian epistemology and virtue epistemology.
Dr Georg Brun, Senior Research Fellow, Environmental Philosophy Group, Institute for Environmental Decisions, ETH Zürich, Switzerland; Dr Ulvi Doguoglu, Senior Research Associate, University of Zürich, Switzerland and Dr Dominique Kuenzle, Research Assistant, Department of Philosophy, University of Zürich, Switzerland.

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