Emotion and Value

Edited by Sabine Roeser and Cain Todd

The first book to bring together philosophers of emotion and value theory
Provides state of the art overviews of current debates
Illuminates the relationship of the emotions to a wide range of topics, including ethics, aesthetics, and self-understanding

Emotion and Value

Edited by Sabine Roeser and Cain Todd

Description

This volume brings together new work by leading philosophers on the topics of emotion and value, and explores issues at their intersection. Philosophers and psychologists working on the emotions have reached something of a consensus about the complex, inter-related nature of the affective and cognitive components of emotions, and have increasingly focussed on the important epistemological role that emotions play in giving us access to values. At the same time, an increasing number of philosophers have become attracted to analyses of value that give emotions a prominent place in evaluative judgements and experiences. The work undertaken in each of these areas has important implications for current research on topics such as the role that emotions play in practical rationality and moral psychology, the connection between imagination and emotion in the appreciation of fiction, and more generally with the ability of emotions to discern axiological saliences and to ground (or fail to ground) the objectivity of ethical or aesthetic value judgements. This volume makes a unique contribution to scholarship on emotion and value by bringing together top authors from these lines of research. In addition, the volume contains a number of contributions that explore various links between the emotions and self-understanding, touching on a range of themes that include depression, empathy, agency, guilt, and self-trust. All of these issues are approached from a number of different perspectives in order to present the reader with a wide view of this extremely rich terrain and to demonstrate how the latest thinking in a number of currently intensive areas of research is deeply interconnected.

Emotion and Value

Edited by Sabine Roeser and Cain Todd

1. Emotion and Value: Introduction, Sabine Roeser and Cain Todd
Part I. Emotion and the Nature of Value
2. In what Sense are Emotions Evaluations?, Julien Deonna and Fabrice Teroni
3. Evaluative Phenomenology, Michelle Montague
4. Emotion, Attention, and the Nature of Value, Michael Brady
5. Emotions as Unitary States, Jonathan Dancy
6. Relatively Fitting Emotions and Apparently Objective Values, Cain Todd
Part II. Emotion, Evaluation, and Justification
7. Emotion, Evaluative Perception, and Epistemic Justification, Adam Pelser
8. Why Recalcitrant Emotions Are Not Irrational, Sabine Doring
9. Surprise, Adam Morton
10. Emotions Fit for Fictions, Greg Currie
Part III. Emotion, Value and the Self
11. Emotional Self-trust, Linda Zagzebski
12. Self-empathy and Moral Repair, Nancy Sherman
13. Emotions and the Virtues of Self-understanding, Michael Lacewing
14. Emotion and Agency, Jan Slaby and Philipp Wuschner
15. Evaluating Existential Despair, Matthew Ratcliffe

Emotion and Value

Edited by Sabine Roeser and Cain Todd

Author Information

Sabine Roeser is professor of ethics at the philosophy Department of the University of Delft, The Netherlands, where she holds a distinguished Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Chair. She is head of a research group on 'Moral Emotions and Risk Politics'. Her research has been funded by several major grants from the Dutch science foundation NWO, and she publishes on ethics, emotions, and risk. She is author of the monograph Moral Emotions and Intuitions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

Cain Todd has been Lecturer in Philosophy at Lancaster University since completing his PhD in philosophy at the University of Cambridge in 2003. He has held visiting positions at the University of Geneva and the Institut Jean Nicod, and from 2011 to 2013 he was co-leader of the project 'Imagination, Emotion, and Value' funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. His main research areas are aesthetics, philosophy of mind, and value theory, and in addition to publishing a number of articles in these areas he is the author of The Philosophy of Wine: a case of truth, beauty, and intoxication (Acumen Press, 2010).

Contributors:

Michael Brady, University of Glasgow
Greg Currie, University of York
Jonathan Dancy, University of Reading/ University of Austin at Texas
Julien Deonna, University of Geneva
Sabine Döring, Tübingen University
Michael Lacewing, Heythrop College, University of London
Michelle Montague, University of Texas at Austin
Adam Morton, University of Alberta
Adam Pelser, United States Air Force Academy
Matthew Ratcliffe, Durham University
Sabine Roeser, Delft University of Technology
Nancy Sherman, Georgetown University
Jan Slaby, Free University Berlin
Fabrice Teroni, University of Bern
Cain Todd, Lancaster University/University of Fribourg
Philipp Wüschner, Free University Berlin
Linda Zagzebski, University of Oklahoma

Emotion and Value

Edited by Sabine Roeser and Cain Todd

Reviews and Awards

"Roeser and Todd have done a service to the discipline by assembling this volume. For those who do not work in the philosophy of the emotions, its contributions will illuminate both the inherent interest of the subject, and its manifold connections to other parts of philosophy. For those seeking to orient themselves in this part of philosophy, it will serve as a helpful survey of significant portions of the terrain. And for those already working in the area, its individual contributions will nourish thought and reward study." --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online

"Recommended." -- Choice

"...the essays in this book are of high quality and present original ideas about the nature of evaluative experiences and the role emotions play in evaluative experience and knowledge acquisition. Graduate students and researchers with interests in these topics will benefit from reading this book." -- The Philosophical Quarterly