1: Introduction: Piecing Passions Apart
2: Feeling Without Thinking
3: Embodied Appraisals
4: Basic Emotions and Nature
5: Emotions and Nature
6: Emotions and Nurture
7: Valence
8: A Typology of Affective States
9: Emotional Consciousness
10: Is Getting Mad Like Seeing Red?
Coda: Parting Ways
References
Index
Jesse Prinz is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Furnishing
the Mind, in which he defends the view that all concepts have their
basis in perception, and two forthcoming titles. In The Emotional
Basis of Morals, he argues that moral concepts essentially involve
emotions, and, in eyond Human Nature, he argues that culture and
experience shape
human thought.
"Gut Reactions is an important book on emotions by a careful
thinker and engaging writer, one who tries harder than most to work
in both the philosophical and psychological realms. It ought to be
required reading for all those who are interested in the scientific
study of emotions, and should appeal to an even wider
audience."-Anthony P. Atkinson, Philosophical Psychology
"Prinz's book provides a valuable perspective on the emotions by
offering a compelling and surprisingly fecund defense of a view
neglected in recent philosophy. Given the tendency of much recent
research on the philosophy of emotions to revisit ad nauseum the
same few debates with the same few responses, Prinz's book offers
an exciting and refreshing new course. Gut Reactions should spawn
needed debate about the views he offers, and may act as
the locus in philosophy for a rebirth of the James-Lange
theory."--Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
"Excellent...Prinz's book is utterly compelling and a valuable read
for any student or researcher of the emotions, philosophy of mind
and perception."--Metapsychology Online Book Reviews
"Jesse Prinz's wide-ranging knowledge of the cognitive sciences
makes this book a watershed contribution to the field of emotion
research. His embodied appraisal theory, which attempts to mediate
between recent neurobiological approaches and the cognitive
theories that have dominated philosophical thinking, is a major
step forward in the debate. Because Prinz builds his case on a
richly detailed account of empirical research, I recommend this as
the
book to read on the renaissance of emotion in the last two decades,
in neuroscience and psychology as well as philosophy."--Robert M.
Gordon, University of Missouri, St. Louis
"In this philosophically deep and scientifically erudite work,
Jesse Prinz provides the first systematic philosophical account of
the emotions grounded in 'affective neuroscience.' This rapidly
developing science has had a major influence on recent philosophy
of mind and moral psychology. Through his searching analysis of its
conceptual underpinnings Prinz throws light on many of the central
issues in the philosophy of mind. Essential reading for
philosophers
of mind and for emotion researchers in all disciplines."--Paul
Griffiths, University of Pittsburgh
"Jesse Prinz's Gut Reactions is an exciting book. I couldn't put it
down, but I fought with it every inch of the way. I found myself
forced to look at the emotions through a "brain's eye view" instead
of by way of my usual humanist perspective. Thirty years ago, a
younger generation employed excessive but effective polemics
against the Jamesian paradigm. Prinz energetically returns the
favor, but now it is we cognitivists and social
constructionists
who are on the defensive."--Robert C. Solomon, The University of
Texas at Austin
"Gut Reactions is an important book on emotions by a careful
thinker and engaging writer, one who tries harder than most to work
in both the philosophical and psychological realms. It ought to be
required reading for all those who are interested in the scientific
study of emotions, and should appeal to an even wider
audience."-Anthony P. Atkinson, Philosophical Psychology
"Prinz's book provides a valuable perspective on the emotions by
offering a compelling and surprisingly fecund defense of a view
neglected in recent philosophy. Given the tendency of much recent
research on the philosophy of emotions to revisit ad nauseum the
same few debates with the same few responses, Prinz's book offers
an exciting and refreshing new course. Gut Reactions should spawn
needed debate about the views he offers, and may act as
the locus in philosophy for a rebirth of the James-Lange
theory."--Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
"Excellent...Prinz's book is utterly compelling and a valuable read
for any student or researcher of the emotions, philosophy of mind
and perception."--Metapsychology Online Book Reviews
"Jesse Prinz's Gut Reactions is an exciting book. I couldn't put it
down, but I fought with it every inch of the way. I found myself
forced to look at the emotions through a "brain's eye view" instead
of by way of my usual humanist perspective. Thirty years ago, a
younger generation employed excessive but effective polemics
against the Jamesian paradigm. Prinz energetically returns the
favor, but now it is we cognitivists and social
constructionists
who are on the defensive."--Robert C. Solomon, The University of
Texas at Austin
"In this philosophically deep and scientifically erudite work,
Jesse Prinz provides the first systematic philosophical account of
the emotions grounded in 'affective neuroscience.' This rapidly
developing science has had a major influence on recent philosophy
of mind and moral psychology. Through his searching analysis of its
conceptual underpinnings Prinz throws light on many of the central
issues in the philosophy of mind. Essential reading for
philosophers
of mind and for emotion researchers in all disciplines."--Paul
Griffiths, University of Pittsburgh
"Jesse Prinz's wide-ranging knowledge of the cognitive sciences
makes this book a watershed contribution to the field of emotion
research. His embodied appraisal theory, which attempts to mediate
between recent neurobiological approaches and the cognitive
theories that have dominated philosophical thinking, is a major
step forward in the debate. Because Prinz builds his case on a
richly detailed account of empirical research, I recommend this as
the
book to read on the renaissance of emotion in the last two decades,
in neuroscience and psychology as well as philosophy."--Robert M.
Gordon, University of Missouri, St. Louis
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