The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Emotion

Robert Zaborowski, Metapsychology Review from previous edition Without any doubt ... a collection of useful and inspiring materials that I recommend for anyone interested in philosophy of emotions ... I have already made good use of it in papers and seminars and intend to do so in my future research.

<br>Peter Goldie is The Samuel Hall Chair of Philosophy at The University of Manchester. He is the author of The Emotions: A Philosophical Exploration (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000), On Personality (London: Routledge, 2004), and co-author of Who's Afraid of Conceptual Art (London: Routledge, 2009). He is editor of Understanding Emotions: Mind and Morals (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2002), co-editor of Philosophy and Conceptual Art (Oxford: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), and co-editor of Empathy: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009). He is working on a monograph on narrative for OUP.<br>

Introduction; PART 1: WHAT EMOTIONS ARE; 1. Concepts of Emotion in Modern Philosophy and Psychology; 2. The Thing Called Emotion; 3. Describing the Forms of Emotional Colouring that Pervade Everyday Life; 4. The Mind's Bermuda Triangle: Philosophy of Emotions and Empirical Science; PART 2: THE HISTORY OF EMOTION; 5. Emotions in Plato and Aristotle; 6. Stoicism and Epicureanism; 7. Emotion in Medieval Thought; 8. A Sentimentalist defence of Contempt, Shame, and Disdain; 9. Emotions in Heidegger and Sartre; 10. Reinstating the Passions: Arguments from History of Psychopathology; PART 3: EMOTIONS AND PRACTICAL REASON; 11. Emotional Choice and Rational Choice; 12. Why be Emotional?; 13. Emotions and Motivation: Reconsidering Neo-Jamesian Accounts; 14. Emotions and Motivation: The Case of Fear; PART 4: EMOTIONS AND THE SELF; 15. The Phenomenology of Mood and the Meaning of Life; 16. Saying It; 17. Epistemic Emotions; 18. A Plea for Ambivalence; 19. Emotion, Self/Other-Awareness, and Autism: A Developmental Perspective; 20. Intellectual and Other Non-Standard Emotions; PART 5: EMOTION, VALUE, AND MORALITY; 21. Emotions and Values; 22. An Ethics of Emotion?; 23. The Moral Emotions; 24. Learning Emotions and Ethics; 25. Emotions and the Canons of Evaluation; 26. Demystifying Sensibilities: Sentimental Values and the Instability of Affect; PART 6: EMOTION, ART, AND AESTHETICS; 27. Expression in the Arts; 28. Affects in Appreciation; 29. Emotions, Art, and Immorality; 30. Emotional Responses to Music: What are they? How do they work? And are they relevant to aesthetic appreciation?