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Interdisciplinary Foundations for the Science of Emotion

Unification without Consilience

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Introduces a meta-framework for conducting interdisciplinary research in the science of emotion, as well as a framework for a particular theory of emotion

  • Provides a novel way to understand the current discourse in the interdisciplinary study of emotions

  • Identifies several principles as fundamental for the science of emotion across the disciplinesDemonstrates how the philosophy of emotion is related to other areas of philosophy, such as philosophy of science, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, ethics, and feminist philosophyIntroduces a novel theory of intentionality and rationality which makes sense of many of our ordinary intuitions about emotions, cognition, meaning, and knowledge, while also challenging other ordinary intuitions and long held philosophical traditions on these topics

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxvii
  2. The Meaning of “Emotion”

    • Cecilea Mun
    Pages 31-66
  3. From an Eagle’s Eye Point of View

    • Cecilea Mun
    Pages 67-91
  4. We Are Living in a Material World

    • Cecilea Mun
    Pages 117-147
  5. Original Intentionality

    • Cecilea Mun
    Pages 149-180
  6. How Can We Know? Let Me Count Three Ways

    • Cecilea Mun
    Pages 209-239
  7. Knowing Once More, but with Feeling

    • Cecilea Mun
    Pages 241-271
  8. A Sketch of Semantic Dualism about Emotion

    • Cecilea Mun
    Pages 273-294
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 295-306

About this book

In this book, Cecilea Mun introduces an innovative meta-framework for conducting interdisciplinary research in the science of emotion, broadly construed, as well as a framework for a particular kind of theory of emotion. She provides new solutions and arguments in support of an embodied cognitive approach to resolving a wide range of problems, including those concerning skepticism, the place of ordinary intuitions for the science of emotion, intentionality, the rationality of emotions, naturalizing knowledge, and the debate between philosophical cognitive and noncognitive theories of emotion. Her solutions include a revolutionary, unifying, interdisciplinary taxonomy of theories of emotion, which allows one to understand the discourse in the science of emotion as a debate between four fundamental types of theories: realism, instrumentalism, eliminativism, and eliminative-realism. Her original proposal for a conception of intentionality that makes sense of our ordinary intuitions is also combined with her comprehensive account of rationality to articulate a groundbreaking understanding of the structure of human rationality. All of the contributions made herein, together, provide the foundations for a profound understanding of emotions, including as a kind of embodied language.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Las Vegas, USA

    Cecilea Mun

About the author

Cecilea Mun is a disabled, Korean-American philosopher. She is the founding director of the Society for Philosophy of Emotion, and the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Philosophy of Emotion.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Interdisciplinary Foundations for the Science of Emotion

  • Book Subtitle: Unification without Consilience

  • Authors: Cecilea Mun

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71194-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71193-1Published: 23 June 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71196-2Published: 24 June 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-71194-8Published: 22 June 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXVII, 306

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Emotion, Philosophy, general, Ethics

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Softcover Book USD 139.99
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