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Morality and the Emotions
Edited by Carla Bagnoli
320 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-957750-7
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Hardback
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27 October 2011
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- Original essays written by a team of leading scholars
- Reclaims emotions as a subject for moral philosophers
- Engages with key questions about the value and role of emotion in our lives
- An extraordinary resource for both scholars and students
Emotions shape our mental and social lives. Their relation to morality is, however, problematic. Since ancient times, philosophers have disagreed about the place of emotions in morality. One the one hand, some hold that emotions are disorderly and unpredictable animal drives, which undermine our autonomy and interfere with our reasoning. For them, emotions represent a persistent source of obstacles to morality, as in the case of self-love. Some virtues, such as prudence, temperance, and fortitude, require or simply consist in the capacity to counteract the disruptive effect of emotions. On the other hand, venerable traditions of thought place emotions such as respect, love, and compassion at the very heart of morality. Emotions are sources of moral
knowledge, modes of moral recognition, discernment, valuing, and understanding. Emotions such as blame, guilt, and shame are the voice of moral conscience, and are central to the functioning of our social lives and normative practices. New scientific findings about the pervasiveness of emotions posit new challenges to ethical theory. Are we responsible for emotions? What is their relation to practical rationality? Are they roots of our identity or threats to our autonomy? This volume is born out of the conviction that philosophy provides a distinctive approach to these problems. Fourteen original articles, by prominent scholars in moral psychology and philosophy of mind, offer new arguments about the relation between emotions and practical rationality, value, autonomy, and moral
identity.Readership: Scholars and advanced students working on philosophy of the emotions, ethics, meta-ethics, action theory, philosophical psychology, philosophy of mind, and moral psychology.
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Edited by Carla Bagnoli, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Carla Bagnoli is Full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she has taught since 1998. She was nominated Professore Straordinario di Filosofia Teoretica at the Università di Modena and Reggio Emilia in 2010. She has written three monographs on moral dilemmas, perplexity, and the authority of morality. Her work has appeared in journals such as the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, European Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Explorations, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Nomos, Dialectica, and Topoi. Her current research project concerns ethical objectivity and the subjective aspects of practical reason.
Contributors:
Carla Bagnoli, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, University of Haifa
Laurence Blum, Boston University
Michael Brady, University of Glasgow
Talbot Brewer, University of Virginia
John Deigh, University of Texas
Tracy Finn, University of Waterloo, Ontario
Patricia Greenspan, University of Maryland
Edward Harcourt, Keble College, Oxford
Bennett Helm, Franklin & Marshall College
Angela Smith, Washington and Lee University, Virginia
Christine Tappolet, University of Montreal
Jacqueline Taylor, University of
San Francisco
Paul Thagard, University of Waterloo, Ontario
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"This volume comprises new work from philosophers who by and large affirm the important role of the emotions in moral experience, but represent varying traditions ranging from the Humean, through the Kantian to the phenomenological. It also ranges over the role of the emotions in areas such as moral motivation, moral epistemology, identity and moral responsibility. As such it presents a good overview of the fertile work being done in this area at the present time and will be an important resource for those working on the topic." - Chris Bennett, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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Contents
List of Contributors
Carla Bagnoli: Introduction
1: Patricia Greenspan: Craving the right: emotions and moral reasons
2: Carla Bagnoli: Emotions and the categorical authority of moral reasons
3: Edward Harcourt: Self-Love and Practical Rationality
4: Aaron Ben-Ze'ev: The Nature and Morality of Romantic Compromises
5: Christine Tappolet: Values and Emotions: Neo-Sentimentalism's Prospects
6: Michael Brady: Emotions, perceptions and reasons
7: Paul Thagard and Tracy Finn: Conscience: What is Moral Intuition?
8: Lawrence Blum: Empathy and empirical psychology. A critique of Shaun Nichols's Neo-sentimentalism
9: John Deigh: Reactive Attitudes Revisited
10: Bennett W. Helm: Responsibility and Dignity: Strawsonian Themes
11: Angela Smith: Guilty Thoughts
12: Jacqueline Taylor: Moral Sentiment and the Sources of Moral Identity
13: Talbot Brewer: On Alienated Emotions
Index
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