...Chris Bobonich REASON AND EMOTION: ESSAYS ON ANCIENT MORAL PSYCHOLOGY. BY John Cooper. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1999. Pp. xvi, 588. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical him,Vol. 110, No. 2 (April 2001...

...Louis C. Charland STRONG FEELINGS: EMOTION, ADDICTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR. By Jon Elster. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 252. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS The PhilosophiculReviau, Vol. 110, No. 1 (January 2001) STRONG FEELINGS...

...Timothy Schroeder Brogaard Berit , On Romantic Love: Simple Truths about a Complex Emotion . New York : Oxford University Press , 2015 . xvi +270 pp. © 2016 by Cornell University 2016 Berit Brogaard's On Romantic Love mixes together popularizations of professional...

...Colin Radford PARADOXES OF EMOTION AND FICTION. By Robert J. Yanal. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 164 Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS would not require him to make any sacrifice to benefit others in the real...

...Róbert H. Haraldsson ON THE EMOTIONS. By Richard Wollheim. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 269. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVLEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 110, No. 3 (July 2001) ON TE-ZE EMOTIONS. By RICHARDWOLLHEIM...

...Robert C. Solomon ALCHEMIES OF THE MIND: RATIONALITY AND THE EMOTIONS. By Jon Elster Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 450. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS and compelling (though, at times, difficult) reading, it can also result...

...Bennett W. Helm THE EMOTIONS: A PHILOSOPHICAL EXPLORATION. By Peter Goldie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pages. vi, 265. Cornell University 2002 BOOK REVIEWS I am not convinced by the way the authors try to distinguish preventing homosexuality...

...Manuel Vargas [email protected] Pereboom Derk , Wrongdoing and the Moral Emotions . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2021 . 204 pp. © 2024 by Cornell University 2024 If no one is morally responsible, how should we respond to wrongdoing? Over the past twenty-five...

...Seth Shabo In his seminal essay “Freedom and Resentment,” P. F. Strawson drew attention to the role of such emotions as resentment, moral indignation, and guilt in our moral and personal lives. According to Strawson, these reactive attitudes are at once constitutive of moral blame and inseparable...

...Nicolas Cornell This essay defends the possibility of preemptive forgiving, that is, forgiving before the offending action has taken place. This essay argues that our moral practices and emotions admit such a possibility, and it attempts to offer examples to illustrate this phenomenon...

... to the specifically and merely human function, which is an activity of the compound of human reason and emotions. Cornell University 2007 Ackrill, J. L. 1980 . “Aristotle on Eudaimonia.” In Essays on Aristotle's Ethics ,ed. A. O. Rorty, 15 -33. Berkeley: University of California Press. Broadie, Sarah...

... at the margins but broadly inept. Examples highlighted in this essay include: emotional experience (for example, is it entirely bodily; does joy have a common, distinctive phenomenological core?), peripheral vision (how broad and stable is the region of visual clarity?), and the phenomenology of thought (does...

... to be not without a meaning.8 Here Aristotle is trying to reconcile the requirement that plotted events follow “by necessity or probability,” on the one hand, with the requirement that they arouse fear and pity, one the other, given that these emotions are enhanced by the element of surprise. The usual...

..., conceptions of virtue give a prominent role to cultivation of proper emotions and appetites, whereas Kant insists that a good will be determined by reverence for the moral law, not emotion or inclination. Elements of this sharp contrast have been under re-examination lately in work on Greek and Kantian ethics...

.... But what is this ‘something’ of the virtues we already possess, which allows us to be receptive to the process of habituation that culminates in mature virtue? That ‘something’, says Jimenez, are desiderative and emotional tendencies that orient us toward the noble. In particular, we are born with a sense...

... provide participants with reasons for certain emotional vulnerabilities and actions. This fact is straightforwardly a reason for A to be emotionally vulnerable to B and r, and to act in the interests of B and r. My claim that this fact is a reason for A to love B, however, requires that this fact...

... of Reading The Philosophical Review, Vol. 110, No. 1 (January 2001) ALCHEMLES OF THE MIND: RATIONALTTY AND THE EMOTIONS. By JON ELSTERCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 450. This is perhaps the richest book on emotions I have read. It is also a very frus...

...” [Strawson 2003, 82] ). But as the demand and our emotional responses to its violation are grounded in what we care about, these responses are what determine the nature and contours of moral responsibility (and so help fill in and ground our practices of moral condemnation and punishment...

... includes our emotions—much as in Herder himself. 3 Kant's notion of the “free play” of imagination and understanding is also an essentially psychological explanation of our pleasure in aesthetic experience. What can properly be said, and this indeed is Zuckert's main point, is that Herder places more...

... tends to be the central focus of such approaches. Other states like perception, sensation, desire, intention, and the various emotions are merely gestured at or relegated to some other, disunified account. A major virtue of Byrne’s book is that it accepts the onus of extending the theory to these states...