The Rationality of Emotion
| Author/creator | De Sousa, Ronald Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge : MIT Press |
| Description | 395 p. ill 09.000 x 06.000 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from MIT Press Direct to Open Backfile HSS Monographs |
| Subjects |
| Series | Bradford Bks. |
| Summary | Annotation In this urbane and witty book, Ronald de Sousa disputes the widespread notion that reason and emotion are natural antagonists. He argues that emotions are a kind of perception, that their roots in the paradigm scenarios in which they are learned give them an essentially dramatic structure, and that they have a crucial role to-play in rational beliefs, desires, and decisions by breaking the deadlocks of pure reason.<br /><br />The book's twelve chapters take up the following topics: alternative models of mind and emotion; the relation between evolutionary, physiological, and social factors in emotions; a taxonomy of objects of emotions; assessments of emotions for correctness and rationality; the regulation by emotions of logical and practical reasoning; emotion and time; the mechanism of emotional self-deception; the ethics of laughter; and the roles of emotions in the conduct of life. There is also an illustrative interlude, in the form of a lively dialogue about the ideology of love, jealousy, and sexual exclusiveness.<br /><br />Ronald de Sousa teaches philosophy at the University of Toronto. A Bradford Book. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 87007761 |
| ISBN | 9780262040921 |
| ISBN | 0262040921 (Trade Cloth) Out of Print |
| Standard identifier# | 9780262040921 |
| Stock number | 00015994 |
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