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What emotions really are : the problem of psychological categories

Author: Paul E Griffiths
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Series: Science and its conceptual foundations.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Paul E. Griffiths argues that most research on the emotions has been as misguided as Aristotelian efforts to study "superlunary objects"--Objects outside the moon's orbit. Such subjects exist, of course, but studying them as a group produces no useful results because they share no traits other than an arbitrarily defined location. Similarly, Griffiths show that "emotion", as currently defined, groups together  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Paul E Griffiths
ISBN: 0226308715 9780226308715 0226308723 9780226308722
OCLC Number: 35990240
Description: xi, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Introduction --
2. Philosophy and Emotion --
The Poverty of Conceptual Analysis --
3. The Psychoevolutionary Approach to Emotion --
4. Affect Programs and Emotion Modules --
5. The Higher Cognitive Emotions: Some Research Programs --
6. The Social Construction of Emotion --
7. Natural Kinds and Theoretical Concepts --
8. Natural Kinds in Biology and Psychology --
9. What Emotions Really Are --
10. Coda --
Mood and Emotion.
Series Title: Science and its conceptual foundations.
Responsibility: Paul E. Griffiths.
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Abstract:

Paul E. Griffiths argues that most research on the emotions has been as misguided as Aristotelian efforts to study "superlunary objects"--Objects outside the moon's orbit. Such subjects exist, of course, but studying them as a group produces no useful results because they share no traits other than an arbitrarily defined location. Similarly, Griffiths show that "emotion", as currently defined, groups together psychological states of very different, and thus not comparable, kinds. According to Griffiths, theoretical research on emotions took a wrong turn by not fully exploring the relevant empirical evidence. Griffiths provides a detailed overview of this material, drawing on ethology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and anthropology of the emotions. He identifies and assesses the relative merits of three main theoretical approaches - affect program theory, evolutionary psychology, and social constructionism.

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