The Rationality of Emotions Across Time
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 9687286 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Dan Moller (0000-0002-1114-7070, University of Maryland, College Park, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2025 |
| Volumen | 64 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 1-18 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2025-01-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949 |
| Editorial | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0012217324000477 |
| OpenAlex | W4406378758 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 37 |
Philosophers have struggled to explain the mismatch of emotions and their objects across time, as when we stop grieving or feeling angry despite the persistence of the underlying cause. I argue for a sceptical approach that says that these emotional changes often lack rational fit. The key observation is that our emotions must periodically reset for purely functional reasons that have nothing to do with fit. I compare this account to David Hume’s sceptical approach in matters of belief, and conclude that resistance to it rests on a confusion similar to one that he identifies
Cognitive psychology · Epistemology · Rationality · Cultural Differences and Values · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology
Emotions and Reasons
Love and the Rationality of Grief
The Mess Inside
Emotion And Adaptation
What Emotions Really Are
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
The Strike of the Demon
Functional Accounts of Emotions
Basic Emotions
All Negative Moods Are Not Equal
There Are No Reasons for Affective Attitudes
Fittingness First
Evolution and Social Psychology
What Emotions Are About
Hume's Skeptical Solution and the Causal Theory of Knowledge
The Moralistic Fallacy
Forever fitting feelings
Events and subjective well-being
Action, Emotion and Will
On the Temporality of Emotions
The Wrong Kind of Reason
What's the Use of Utility
Immune neglect
Beyond simple pessimism
What Good Are Positive Emotions
Resilience to loss and chronic grief
Upheavals of Thought
Fittingness
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| Altamente citado | No |