Description
Embodied Emotions
A Naturalist Approach to a Normative Phenomenon
Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy Series
Author: Hufendiek Rebekka
Language: EnglishSubject for Embodied Emotions:
Keywords
normative; emotions; affect; cognitivism; noncognitivism; non-cognitivism; embodied; embedded; embodied cognition; situated cognition; norms; Jamesian; Neojamesian; respresentationalist; evaluative; Higher Cognitive Emotions; Core Relational Themes; Bodily Reactions; Bodily Arousal; Task Description Level; Response Dependent Properties; Nonconceptual Content; Emotion Type; Semantic Norms; Noncognitivist Approach; Background Knowledge; Cognitive Impenetrability; Bodily Feedback; Traditional Cognitivist Approaches; Calibration File; Nonconceptual Level; Homeostatic Reactions; Emotional Episodes; Affect Program; Sensorimotor Contingencies; Causal Role Function; Natural Information; Relational Properties; Prereflective Self-consciousness; Unexpected Loud Noise
Publication date: 09-2018
· 15.2x22.9 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 12-2015
· 15.2x22.9 cm · Hardback
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In this book, Rebekka Hufendiek explores emotions as embodied, action-oriented representations, providing a non-cognitivist theory of emotions that accounts for their normative dimensions. Embodied Emotions focuses not only on the bodily reactions involved in emotions, but also on the environment within which emotions are embedded and on the social character of this environment, its ontological constitution, and the way it scaffolds both the development of particular emotion types and the unfolding of individual emotional episodes. In addition, it provides a critical review and appraisal of current empirical studies, mainly in psychophysiology and developmental psychology, which are relevant to discussions about whether emotions are embodied as well as socially embedded. The theory that Hufendiek puts forward denies the distinction between basic and higher cognitive emotions: all emotions are embodied, action-oriented representations. This approach can account for the complex normative structure of emotions, and shares the advantages of cognitivist accounts of emotions without sharing their problems. Embodied Emotions makes an original contribution to ongoing debates on the normative aspects of emotions and will be of interest to philosophers working on emotions, embodied cognition and situated cognition, as well as neuroscientists or psychologists who study emotions and are interested in placing their own work within a broader theoretical framework.
1. Cognitivism and the Normative Dimension of Emotions 2. Appraising Arousal: Emotions and the Body 3. Embodiment and the Intentionality of Emotions 4. Embedded Emotions and the Ontology of Core Relational Themes 5. Loving is as Loving Does: Embodied Action-Oriented Representations
Rebekka Hufendiek is a postdoctoral candidate at the University of Basel. Her research focuses on philosophy of mind and psychology with a particular intereest in embodied cognition, emotion theories and naturalism. She has written several papers and reviews on embodiment, emotions, the modularity of mind and the vices and virtues of naturalist approaches to the mind.