Scott Alexander Howard
Biographic Data
| ID | 5966658 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott Alexander Howard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Howard |
| SIGNATURE | HOWARD S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Emotional Insight
Michael Brady attacks the popular idea that emotions are, or are quite like, perceptions: perceptions of evaluative properties, or, more elegantly, the evaluative world. While the perceptual model of emotions has been criticized before, this is the first book-length work devoted to the task. Emotional Insight's argument is therefore timely, in addition to being original and plausible. As a piece of writing, it has a pleasingly straightforward arc…
Lyrical Emotions and Sentimentality
I investigate the normative status of an unexamined category of emotions: ‘lyrical’ emotions about the transience of things. Lyrical emotions are often accused of sentimentality—a charge that expresses the idea that they are unfitting responses to their objects. However, when we test the merits of that charge using the standard model of emotion evaluation, a surprising problem emerges: it turns out that we cannot make normative distinctions betwe…
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Lyrical Emotions and Sentimentality
I investigate the normative status of an unexamined category of emotions: ‘lyrical’ emotions about the transience of things. Lyrical emotions are often accused of sentimentality—a charge that expresses the idea that they are unfitting responses to their objects. However, when we test the merits of that charge using the standard model of emotion evaluation, a surprising problem emerges: it turns out that we cannot make normative distinctions betwe…
Emotional Insight
Michael Brady attacks the popular idea that emotions are, or are quite like, perceptions: perceptions of evaluative properties, or, more elegantly, the evaluative world. While the perceptual model of emotions has been criticized before, this is the first book-length work devoted to the task. Emotional Insight's argument is therefore timely, in addition to being original and plausible. As a piece of writing, it has a pleasingly straightforward arc…
Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Feeling (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Argument (complex analysis) (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Counterintuitive (1 work)