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Ideas of Peter Goldie, by Text

[British, fl. 2000, Worked for 25 year in City of London before switching to philosophy. King's College, London]

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