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Emotion, Evolution and RationalityEdited
by Dylan Evans and Pierre Cruse
Price: £55.00 (hardback) / £24.95
(paperback) ISBN: 0-19-852897-3 (hardback) Buy this book online here! For thousands of years it was almost universally assumed by Western thinkers that emotions were, at best, harmless luxuries, and at worst outright obstacles to intelligent action. One of the central ideas to emerge from the recent renaissance of interest in the emotions is that this 'negative view of emotion' cannot be correct. A consensus is appearing among scientists from a range of disciplines that emotions are in fact vital to intelligent action. Evolutionary considerations have played a vital role in this shift to a more positive view of emotion. This book examines the role that evolutionary considerations can play in helping us to understand the question of whether emotions are helpful or detrimental to rational thought and decision-making. How should we understand the evolutionary role of emotions? And can this explain the relationship between emotions and rationality? This book is the
outcome of an international conference held at King's College London in
April 2002, at which some of the leading lights in emotion research
from around the world gathered to exchange ideas. Neuroscientists
and psychologists rubbed shoulders with philosophers and researchers in
artificial intelligence, in what turned out to be a very fruitful
meeting. This book brings together some of the most stimulating
papers from that conference so that the ideas they put forward may
reach a wider audience. It is our hope that, by publishing these
papers together in book form, the intellectual momentum generated by
the conference will not be lost. Contributors: Christopher
Badcock Andrew J.
Calder Pierre
Cruse Antonio
Damasio Dylan Evans Peter Goldie Paul Griffiths Jim Hopkins Andrew D. Lawrence Gianmatteo Mameli Daniel Nettle Brian Parkinson Jesse Prinz Finn Spicer Chandra Sripada Stephen Stich
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