2000 | The Emotions |
Intro | p.2 | 23966 | The personal view can still be objective, so I call sciences 'impersonal', rather than objective |
Intro | p.3 | 23967 | Some emotions are direct responses, and neither rational nor irrational |
Intro | p.4 | 23968 | If reasons are seen impersonally (as just causal), then feelings are an irrelevant extra |
Intro | p.6 | 23969 | We have feelings of which we are hardly aware towards things in the world |
Intro | p.6 | 23970 | Emotions are not avocado pears, with a rigid core and changeable surface |
1 Intro | p.13 | 23971 | Emotional thought is not rational, but it can be intelligible |
2 'Conclusion' | p.48 | 23978 | 'Having an emotion' differs from 'being emotional' |
2 'Conclusion' | p.48 | 23979 | Emotional responses can reveal to us our values, which might otherwise remain hidden |
2 'Education' | p.30 | 23975 | Learning an evaluative property like 'dangerous' is also learning an emotion |
2 'Education' | p.36 | 23976 | If we have a 'feeling towards' an object, that gives the recognition a different content |
2 'Explanation' | p.40 | 23977 | When actions are performed 'out of' emotion, they appear to be quite different |
2 'Intentionality' | p.17 | 23973 | Unlike moods, emotions have specific objects, though the difference is a matter of degree |
2 'Intentionality' | p.18 | 23974 | Emotional intentionality as belief and desire misses out the necessity of feelings |
2 'What' | p.13 | 23972 | A long lasting and evolving emotion is still seen as a single emotion, such as love |
3 Intro | p.51 | 23980 | It is best to see emotions holistically, as embedded in a person's life narrative |
3 'Towards' | p.58 | 23982 | If emotions are 'towards' things, they can't be bodily feelings, which lack aboutness |
3 'Towards' | p.58 | 23983 | We call emotions 'passions' because they are not as controlled as we would like |
3 'Unreflective' | p.68 | 23984 | An emotion needs episodes of feeling, but not continuously |
4 'Education' | p.12 | 23999 | Emotional control is hard, but we are responsible for our emotions over long time periods |
4 'Education' | p.107 | 23993 | Our capabilities did not all evolve during the hunter gathering period |
4 'Education' | p.110 | 23994 | Emotions are not easily changed, as new knowledge makes little difference, and akrasia is possible |
4 'Education' | p.111 | 23995 | Akrasia can be either overruling our deliberation, or failing to deliberate |
4 'Education' | p.117 | 23998 | Emotional control is less concerned with emotional incidents, and more with emotional tendencies |
4 'Evidence' | p.87 | 23986 | Early Chinese basic emotions: joy, anger, sadness, fear, love, disliking, and liking |
4 'Evidence' | p.87 | 23985 | A basic emotion is the foundation of a hierarchy, such as anger for types of annoyance |
4 'Evidence' | p.89 | 23991 | Cross-cultural studies of facial expressions suggests seven basic emotions |
4 'Evidence' | p.91 | 23992 | Some Aborigines have fifteen different words for types of fear |
6 Intro | p.142 | 24000 | Justifying reasons say you were right; excusing reasons say your act was explicable |
6 'Mood' | p.148 | 24001 | Moods can focus as emotions, and emotions can blur into moods |
6 'Traits' | p.152 | 24002 | We over-estimate the role of character traits when explaining behaviour |
6 'Traits' | p.153 | 24003 | Character traits are both possession of and lack of dispositions |
6 'Traits' | p.160 | 24004 | Psychologists suggest we are muddled about traits, and maybe they should be abandoned |
7 Intro | p.177 | 24005 | We know other's emotions by explanation, contagion, empathy, imagination, or sympathy |
7 'Sympathy' | p.216 | 24006 | Empathy and imagining don't ensure sympathy, and sympathy doesn't need them |