Emotions and Understanding

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Ylva Gustafsson, Camilla Kronqvist, Michael McEachrane

   Pages 1-11

3. Wittgenstein’s Commonsense Realism about the Mind

   • Alice Crary

   Pages 12-26

4. Wittgenstein on Emotion

   • Joachim Schulte

   Pages 27-42

5. The Conceptual Framework for the Investigation of Emotions

   • P. M. S. Hacker

   Pages 43-59

6. Emotion-Philosophy-Science

   • Phil Hutchinson

   Pages 60-80

7. Capturing Emotional Thoughts: The Philosophy of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

   • Michael McEachrane

   Pages 81-101

8. The Self and the Emotions

   • John V. Canfield

   Pages 102-112

9. What’s in a Smile?

   • Lars Hertzberg

   Pages 113-125

10. Emotion, Expression and Conversation

    • David Cockburn

    Pages 126-144

11. Illusions of Empathy

    • Ylva Gustafsson

    Pages 145-164

12. The Fiction of Paradox: Really Feeling for Anna Karenina

    • Danièle Moyal-Sharrock

    Pages 165-184

13. On The Pursuit of Happiness

    • Duncan Richter

    Pages 185-201

14. Our Struggles with Reality

    • Camilla Kronqvist

    Pages 202-220

15. Extreme Aversive Emotions: A Wittgensteinian Approach to Dread

    • Rupert Read

    Pages 221-234

16. Back Matter

    Pages 235-240

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This unique collection of articles on emotion by Wittgensteinian philosophers provides a fresh perspective on the questions framing the current philosophical and scientific debates about emotions and offers significant insights into the role of emotions for understanding interpersonal relations and the relation between emotion and ethics.

• emotion
• ethics
• happiness
• Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Åbo Akademi University, Finland

  Ylva Gustafsson, Camilla Kronqvist

• University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

  Michael McEachrane

JOHN V. CANFIELD is Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, Canada ALICE CRARY is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, New York, USA DAVID COCKBURN is Professor of Philosophy at University of Wales Lampeter, UK PETER M.S. HACKER is an Emeritus Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford, UK LARS HERTZBERG is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Åbo Akademi University, Finland PHIL HUTCHINSON is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK DANIÈLE MOYAL-SHARROCK is a Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, UK DUNCAN RICHTER is Professor of Philosophy at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia, USA RUPERT READ is a Reader in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK JOACHIM SCHULTE teaches at the University of Zürich, Switzerland

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