Michael S. Brady is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, having previously taught at the University of Stirling. He has published in moral philosophy, epistemology, and the philosophy of emotion, and has edited two volumes of essays on the Moral and Epistemic Virtues (with Duncan Pritchard) and on New Waves in Metaethics. He is currently Co-Investigator on an interdisciplinary project on the nature of pain at Glasgow. He is Director of the British Philosophical Association, having previously served as Secretary of the Scots Philosophical Association. He is on the editorial board of The Philosophical Quarterly, and subject editor for Oxford Bibliographies.

"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, illustrating the attractions of the perceptual model, setting up the most promising theory of that kind, dismantling it, and addressing some problems that arise along the way. The end result is a contribution to the philosophy of emotions that deserves the interest of any advocate of the perceptual model, as well as philosophers working on the relationship between emotions, attention, and evaluation...As that field continues to grow, so too will the audience for this important work." -- The Philosophical Quarterly

"What makes this book so important and timely is its penetrating critique of a popular, attractive idea that emotions are normatively similar to perceptual experience in virtue of being psychologically similar to them. The rich and compelling positive picture emerging from the critique merits serious attention in its own right." -- Ethics