Category Archives: Emotions

The Value of Emotions for Knowledge

Posted on May 3, 2021 by Giorgio Bertini

If we could assign a foil for this volume, it would be the view that takes emotions to be opposed to rationality, a view on which emotions are generally distracting, fact-twisting, misleading, and unreliable, hindering rather than furthering our epistemic … Continue reading →

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Passionate Engines: What Emotions Reveal about Mind and Artificial Intelligence

Posted on May 13, 2018 by Giorgio Bertini

Human emotional and affective life is so rich, naturally expressive and circumstantially variegated, that any attempt to philosophically theorize about it may appear, at first thought, ridiculous. The phenomena may seem to resist distinctively philosophical analysis. But philosophers on emotion, … Continue reading →

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Thinking about the Emotions: A Philosophical History

Posted on February 7, 2018 by Giorgio Bertini

The editors write that “the volume proposes to investigate the philosophical history of the emotions by bringing together leading historians of philosophy and covering a wide spectrum of schools of thought and epochs, from ancient philosophy up to twentieth-century accounts”. … Continue reading →

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Morality and the Emotions

Posted on October 18, 2017 by Giorgio Bertini

Philosophers of mind have been paying increasing attention to the emotions over the past thirty years, and this work inspires and is inspired by developments in ethics. Morality and the emotions seem bound up with one another, but how should … Continue reading →

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