Coleen Macnamara
Biographic Data
| ID | 1141566 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Coleen Macnamara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Coleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Macnamara |
| SIGNATURE | MACNAMARA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1776-7112 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Emotion of Gratitude and Communal Relationships
Emotions are typically dual‐faced: they involve both an evaluative and a practical aspect. What is more, an emotion's evaluative and practical aspects tend to exhibit a kind of fit. For example, Sakshi's fear of the bear involves apprehending the bear as a threat to something she cares about, i.e., her wellbeing. And it motivates her to act on behalf of this care: it motivates her to act in ways that protect her wellbeing. Both dimensions of Saks…
Guilt, Desert, Fittingness, and the Good
Reactive Attitudes as Communicative Entities
Many theorists claim that the reactive emotions, even in their private form, are communicative entities. But as widely endorsed as this claim is, it has not been redeemed: the literature lacks a clear and compelling account of the sense in which reactive attitudes qua private mental states are essentially communicative. In this paper, I fill this gap. I propose that it is apt to characterize privately held reactive attitudes as communicative in n…
Reactive Attitudes as Communicative Entities
Many theorists claim that the reactive emotions, even in their private form, are communicative entities. But as widely endorsed as this claim is, it has not been redeemed: the literature lacks a clear and compelling account of the sense in which reactive attitudes qua private mental states are essentially communicative. In this paper, I fill this gap. I propose that it is apt to characterize privately held reactive attitudes as communicative in n…
Reactive Attitudes as Communicative Entities
Many theorists claim that the reactive emotions, even in their private form, are communicative entities. But as widely endorsed as this claim is, it has not been redeemed: the literature lacks a clear and compelling account of the sense in which reactive attitudes qua private mental states are essentially communicative. In this paper, I fill this gap. I propose that it is apt to characterize privately held reactive attitudes as communicative in n…
Guilt, Desert, Fittingness, and the Good
The Emotion of Gratitude and Communal Relationships
Emotions are typically dual‐faced: they involve both an evaluative and a practical aspect. What is more, an emotion's evaluative and practical aspects tend to exhibit a kind of fit. For example, Sakshi's fear of the bear involves apprehending the bear as a threat to something she cares about, i.e., her wellbeing. And it motivates her to act on behalf of this care: it motivates her to act in ways that protect her wellbeing. Both dimensions of Saks…
Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Emotions and Moral Behavior (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Content (measure theory (1 work) · Cultural Differences and Values (1 work) · Environmental ethics (1 work) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (1 work) · Function (biology (1 work)