Cecilea Mun

I have a wide range of interests, including philosophy of emotion, mind, metaphysics, philosophy of language, epistemology, philosophy of science, feminist philosophy, moral psychology, ethics, and political philosophy, which are all reflected in my current interest in understanding how emotions and emotion attributions, especially the emotion of shame, function intra-personally, interpersonally, and within a society as a whole in order to play the roles that they do in 1) strategic decision-making; 2) what the various emotion feeling rules/norms are that a society can or does instill in order to alter or influence the intra-personal, interpersonal, and societal functions that emotions serve; 3) how societies instill these emotion rules/norms; 4) how distinct hierarchical relationships between members of a society mediate the influence of emotions in strategic decision-making processes; and 5) how specific environmental, social, and economic conditions contribute to the development and implementation of these emotion rules.