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618The Double Intentionality of Emotional ExperienceEuropean Journal of Philosophy 25 (4): 1454-1475. 2017.I argue that while the feeling of bodily responses is not necessary to emotion, these feelings contribute significant meaningful content to everyday emotional experience. Emotional bodily feelings represent a ‘state of self’, analysed as a sense of one's body affording certain patterns of interaction with the environment. Recognising that there are two sources of intentional content in everyday emotional experience allows us to reconcile the diverging intuitions that people have about emotional …Read more
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1466Using the persona to express complex emotions in musicMusic Analysis 29 (1-3): 264-275. 2010.This article defends a persona theory of musical expressivity. After briefly summarising the major arguments for this view, it applies persona theory to the issue of whether music can express complex emotions. The expression of jealousy is then discussed by analysis of two examples from Piazzolla and Janacek.
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Areas of Specialization
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Philosophy of Mind |
Aesthetics |
Theories of Personal Identity |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Emotions |
Imagination |
Well-Being |