{"title":"Emotions Under Trauma","authors":"Alycia LaGuardia-LoBianco","doi":"10.33497/2021.summer.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33497/2021.summer.6","url":null,"abstract":"While emotions can play positive, contributory roles in our cognition and our lives, they frequently have the opposite effect. Michael Brady’s otherwise excellent introduction to the topic of emotion is unbalanced because he does not attend to harms emotions cause. The basic problem is that emotions have a normative aspect: they can be justified or unjustified and Brady does not attend to this. An example of this is Brady’s discussion of curiosity as the emotional motivation for knowledge. More importantly, while emotions can and sometimes do reveal to us what we value, it is far less frequent that emotions reveal objective value.","PeriodicalId":329066,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Philosophy of Emotion","volume":"Suppl 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126010717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Précis: Propelled: How Boredom, Frustration, and Anticipation Lead Us to the Good Life","authors":"Andreas Elpidorou","doi":"10.33497/2022.winter.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33497/2022.winter.1","url":null,"abstract":"By synthesizing research from psychology, economics, and philosophy, Propelled criticizes notions of well-being that overly focus on positive emotions and experiences. Against a tradition that has condemned boredom and frustration to be emotional obstacles that hinder human flourishing, Propelled shows that to live a good life we must experience and react appropriately to both. In addition, it argues that we need to anticipate, wait for, and even long for future events. Boredom, frustration, and anticipation are not unpleasant accidents of our lives. Rather, they are vital psychological states that illuminate our desires and expectations, inform us of when we find ourselves stuck in unpleasant and unfulfilling situations, and motivate us to furnish our lives with meaning, interest, and value.","PeriodicalId":329066,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Philosophy of Emotion","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125071980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial: Introducing the Journal of Philosophy of Emotion","authors":"Cecilea Mun","doi":"10.33497/jpe.v1i1.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33497/jpe.v1i1.43","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":329066,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Philosophy of Emotion","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128159656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Précis: Knowing Emotions","authors":"R. A. Furtak","doi":"10.33497/jpe.v1i1.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33497/jpe.v1i1.42","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":329066,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Philosophy of Emotion","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127395622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emotional Cognitivism without Representationalism","authors":"Dave Beisecker","doi":"10.33497/jpe.v1i1.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33497/jpe.v1i1.35","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":329066,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Philosophy of Emotion","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130839702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emotions, Reasons, and Norms","authors":"E. Simpson","doi":"10.33497/jpe.v1i1.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33497/jpe.v1i1.12","url":null,"abstract":": A tension between acting morally and acting rationally is apparent in analyses of moral emotions that ascribe an inherent subjectivity to ethical thinking, leading thence to irresolvable differences between rational agents. This paper offers an account of emotional worthiness that shows how, even if moral reasons fall short of philosophical criteria of rationality, we can still accord reasonableness to them and recognize that the deliberative weight of social norms is sufficient to address the moral limitations of strategic rationality. The familiar dichotomy between reasoned and emotional responses to things is pretty clearly too sharp. After all, fear is a fitting response when one perceives a threat: the particular threat is a reason for the fear. Although it would not be irrational to feel nothing, the fearful response has a cognitive rationale absent from fear of something obviously harmless. Indeed, even fitting fears are subject to thoughtful criticism, as when one who accepts military norms suggests that fear of the enemy is not worthy of a soldier. Since such norms are themselves open to criticism, however, judgments of emotional worthiness may generate disputes that have no clear resolution, leading to a tension between norm-conformity and a philosophical understanding of rationality that has been identified by the anthropologist Michael Tomasello, among others. This discussion explicates and relaxes that tension. The problem is clear for moral emotions—such as sympathy and respect. They motivate us to care about others’ well-being in ways that may seem to collide with the philosophical criterion of rationality. According to this criterion, rational people","PeriodicalId":329066,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Philosophy of Emotion","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124791990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Knowing Emotions: Replies to de Sousa, Beisecker, and Gallegos","authors":"R. A. Furtak","doi":"10.33497/jpe.v1i1.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33497/jpe.v1i1.30","url":null,"abstract":": Beginning with de Sousa's question about how my position is related to that of \"enactive\" theorists, I spell out my emphasis on the unity of affective experience, and say more about my conception of the emotional \"a priori.\" In response to Beisecker, I elaborate by way of a literary example on how a significant fact can exist without yet having 'registered' in one's emotional awareness, and on the basis of this I reject the claim that emotions constitute significance. Finally, prompted by Gallegos, I elaborate on why, on my view,","PeriodicalId":329066,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Philosophy of Emotion","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124501237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What are Emotions For? From Affective Epistemology to Affective Ethics","authors":"Francisco Gallegos","doi":"10.33497/jpe.v1i1.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33497/jpe.v1i1.33","url":null,"abstract":"Rick Furtak defends the bold thesis that emotions are indispensable to our capacity to recognize the importance of the things we encounter. Emotions, he says, “embody a kind of understanding that is accessible to us only by means of our affective experience. Specifically, it is only through the emotions that we are capable of recognizing the value or significance of anything whatsoever” (Furtak 2018, 3). Yet although the book presents a lively discussion of the recognitive capacity of emotions, it does not offer Abstract: What would it mean for an emotion to successfully “recognize” something about an object toward which it is directed? Although the notion of \"emotional recognition\" is central to Rick Furtak’s Knowing Emotions , the text does not provide an account of this concept that enables us to assess the extent to which a given emotional response is recognitive. This article draws from the text to articulate a novel account of emotional recognition. According to this account, emotional recognition can be assessed not only in terms of the “accuracy” of an emotional construal in a strictly epistemological sense, but also in terms of the quasi-ethical ideal of responding emotionally to what we encounter in ways that are “specific,” “deep,\" and “balanced.\"","PeriodicalId":329066,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Philosophy of Emotion","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126352140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Envy's Non-Innocent Victims","authors":"Iskra Fileva","doi":"10.33497/jpe.v1i1.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33497/jpe.v1i1.25","url":null,"abstract":"Envy has often been seen as a vice and the envied as its victims. I suggest that this plausible view has an important limitation: the envied sometimes actively try to provoke envy. They may, thus, be non-innocent victims. Having argued for this thesis, I draw some practical implications. Envy is a vice, and the envied are its victims. This is one of the major strands in our thinking about envy. Thus, we say such things as, \"Be careful with Bertha, she envies you,\" or, \"Don't believe what Gus says about Ethan—it's envy speaking,\" alleging that Bertha may harm you out of spite or that Gus is speaking to undermine Ethan's reputation behind his back. We find this view in literature as well: Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo, for instance, is so envied for his personal qualities, quick rise in the ranks, and the love of a beautiful woman that he is framed for a crime. In Jean Genet's play The Maids, two maids envy their mistress and conspire to kill her. Balzac's character Bette, from The Cousin Bette, envies the social status and superior physical beauty of her cousin, Hortense Hulot, and plots to destroy Hortense's happiness. The view of envy as a vice with the envied as its victims goes as far back as the Book of Genesis, where we find the story about Cain and Abel: Cain, envious of God's love for Abel, kills Abel. And in the Parson's Tale, Geoffrey Chaucer suggests that envy is the worst of all sins, \"For truly, all other sins are sometimes only against one special virtue, but","PeriodicalId":329066,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Philosophy of Emotion","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132632579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is Contempt Redeemable?","authors":"D. Ronald","doi":"10.33497/jpe.v1i1.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33497/jpe.v1i1.10","url":null,"abstract":"In this essay, I will focus on the two main objections that have been adduced against the moral acceptability of contempt: the fact that it embraces a whole person and not merely some deed or aspect of a person’s character, and the way that when addressed to a person in this way, it amounts to a denial of the very personhood of its target. Contempt has had a bad name in philosophy. However objectionable a person’s character or behavior, philosophers have tended to follow Kant in proscribing contempt as \"incompatible with a fundamental duty of respect\" (Hill 2000, 88). Recently, however, there have been attempts at rehabilitation of nasty emotions in general: there have been pleas for shame (Deonna, Rodogno, and Teroni 2011), jealousy (Kristjáánsson 2002), and other \"shadowy emotions\" (Tappolet, Teroni, and Ziv 2018). Contempt is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as \"the holding or treating as of little account, or as vile and worthless; the mental attitude in which a thing is so considered.\" It is widely regarded as a nasty emotion that cannot be morally justified. Two objections, traceable to Kant, have been adduced against it. The first is that it embraces a whole person globally and not merely some deed or local aspect of a person’s character. The second is that contempt amounts to a denial of the very personhood of its target. The two are closely related: targeting \"the sin, not the sinner\" seems compatible with retaining a basic respect for the latter. But an","PeriodicalId":329066,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Philosophy of Emotion","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128784224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}