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5The Rationality of EmotionPhilosophy and Culture 32 (10): 35-66. 1987.How should we understand the emotional rationality? This first part will explore two models of cognition and analogy strategies, test their intuition about the emotional desire. I distinguish between subjective and objective desire, then presents with a feeling from the "paradigm of drama" export semantics, here our emotional repertoire is acquired all the learned, and our emotions in the form of an object is fixed. It is pretty well in line with the general principles of rationality, especially…Read more
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4In Peter Goldie (ed.), The Mind’s Bermuda Triangle: Philosophy of Emotions and Empirical Science, Oxford University Press. pp. 95--117. 2010.
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Comment on Research Outcome of Philosophy of Emotions in Recent Ten YearsPhilosophy and Culture 32 (10): 147-156. 2005.
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Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, Love Online: Emotions on the Internet (review)Philosophy in Review 24 311-313. 2004.
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Stephen Toulmin, Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity (review)Philosophy in Review 11 138-139. 1991.
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C. G. PRADO, "Making Believe: Philosophical Reflections on Fiction" (review)Dialogue 26 (3): 595. 1987.
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1Stephen Toulmin, Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 11 (2): 138-139. 1991.
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2Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, Love Online: Emotions on the Internet Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 24 (5): 311-313. 2004.
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36Will a stroke of neuroscience ever eradicate evil?In Luca Malatesti & John McMillan (eds.), Responsibility and Psychopathy: Interfacing Law, Psychiatry and Philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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Comments on Barbara S. Stengel: Thinking about Thinking: Wilfred Sellars' Theory on InductionPhilosophy of Education: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society 43 259-262. 1987.
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312Restoring emotion's bad rep: the moral randomness of normsEuropean Journal of Analytic Philosophy 2 (1): 29-47. 2006.Despite the fact that common sense taxes emotions with irrationality, philosophers have, by and large, celebrated their functionality. They are credited with motivating, steadying, shaping or harmonizing our dispositions to act, and with policing norms of social behaviour. It's time to restore emotion's bad rep. To this end, I shall argue that we should expect that some of the “norms” enforced by emotions will be unevenly distributed among the members of our species, and may be dysfunctional at …Read more
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124Review of Jesse Prinz, The Emotional Construction of Morals (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (6). 2008.
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30Review of David Pugmire, Sound Sentiments: Integrity in the Emotions (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (3). 2006.
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98Emotions: What I know, what I'd like to think I know, and what I'd like to thinkIn Robert C. Solomon (ed.), Thinking About Feeling: Contemporary Philosophers on Emotions, Oxford University Press Usa. 2004.
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Rational homunculiIn Amélie Rorty (ed.), The Identities of Persons, University of California Press. 1976.
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42Emotion and self-deceptionIn Brian P. McLaughlin & Amélie Oksenberg Rorty (eds.), Perspectives on Self-Deception, University of California Press. 1988.
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6Or Descriptive Task?In Peter Danielson (ed.), Modeling rationality, morality, and evolution, Oxford University Press. pp. 119. 1998.
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11Paradoxical emotionsIn Sarah Stroud & Christine Tappolet (eds.), Weakness of will and practical irrationality, Oxford University Press. 2003.
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71The mind's Bermuda Triangle: philosophy of emotions and empirical scienceIn Peter Goldie (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Emotion, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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17L'erotismeIn Julien A. Deonna & Emma Tieffenbach (eds.), Petit Traité des Valeurs, Edition D’ithaque. pp. 132-139. 2018.
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40Emotional TruthOxford University Press USA. 2011.The word "truth" retains, in common use, traces of origins that link it to trust, truth, and truce, connoting ideas of fidelity, loyalty, and authenticity. The word has become, in contemporary philosophy, encased in a web of technicalities, but we know that a true image is a faithful portrait; a true friend a loyal one. In a novel or a poem, too, we have a feel for what is emotionally true, though we are not concerned with the actuality of events and characters depicted. To have emotions is to c…Read more
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13Evolution et rationalitéPresses universitaires de France. 2004.À quoi bon la pensée? Pour de nombreux chercheurs, inspirés par les théories évolutionnistes, la pensée réfléchie est utile à notre espèce. Elle lui confère des avantages importants et contribue à son succès reproductif. Pourtant ses avantages ne sont pas si évidents. La pensée ne figure ni dans les mécanismes de l'évolution qui ont façonné la vie, ni parmi les procédés dont se servent la plupart des organismes pour s'y maintenir. Dans Évolution et rationalité, Ronald de Sousa montre que, pour c…Read more
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University of Toronto, St. George CampusDepartment of Philosophy
Institute for the History and Philosophy of ScienceRetired faculty
Areas of Specialization
Value Theory |
Philosophy, Misc |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Areas of Interest
Value Theory |
Philosophy, Misc |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Emotions |