Philosophy and Psychology of Ambivalence

Berit Brogaard is Professor of Philosophy and Cooper Fellow at the University of Miami. Her areas of research include philosophy of perception, philosophy of emotions, and philosophy of language. She is the author of Transient Truths (Oxford University Press, 2012), On Romantic Love (Oxford University Press, 2015), The Superhuman Mind (Penguin, 2015), Seeing & Saying (Oxford University Press, 2018), and Hate: Understanding Our Most Dangerous Emotion (Oxford University Press, 2020).Dimitria Electra Gatzia is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Akron. She received a Research Fellowship at the Centre of Philosophy Psychology at the University of Antwerp (2016-2017) and a Research Fellowship at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy (Summer 2020). She has published numerous scholarly and popular articles on perception, consciousness, cognitive penetration, synesthesia, imagination, and physics. She is the co-editor (with Berit Brogaard) of The Epistemology of Non-visual Perception (Oxford University Press, 2020).

• 1. The Philosophical and Psychological Significance of Ambivalence: An IntroductionBrit Brogaard and Dimitria Electra GatziaPart I: Ambivalence, Rationality, and Truth2. Ambivalence, Incoherence, and Self-GovernanceJohn Brunero3. Ambivalence-Autonomy CompatibilismJ. S. (Jenny) Blumenthal-Barby4. Irrationality, Charity, and AmbivalenceEric Wiland5. Rational Epistemic Akrasia for the Ambivalent PragmatistNeil Sinhababu6. Ambivalence, Uncertainty, and ModalityBarry Lam and Brett Sherman7. Epistemic VertigoDuncan PritchardPart II: Ambivalence, Emotions, and Intentionality8. Fitting Inconsistency and Reasonable IrresolutionSimon D. Feldman and Allan Hazlett9. Self-Hatred, Self-Acceptance, and Self-LoveKaty Abramson and Adam Leite10. To Express or not to Express: Ambivalence about Emotional ExpressionsTrip Glazer11. Intentionalism, Ambivalent Emotions, and the BodyKathryn Pendoley and Sarah ArnaudPart III: Ambivalence, Racism, and Global Justice12. Cognitive Dissonance and the Logic of RacismBerit Brogaard and Dimitria Electra Gatzia13. The Body Politic Is of Two Minds: Political Ambivalence on Norms of JusticeJill DelstonPart IV: Ambivalence, Well-Being, and Subjectivity14. Ambivalence, Well-being, and Prudential RationalityJason R. Raibley15. Bridling the Mindless Ambivalence: Langerian Mindfulness and Suspension of IntentionalitySayyed Mohsen Fatemi and Ellen Langer16. Ambivalence and the Borderline Position in the Existential-Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty: On Being and Having a Body-in-the-World from Primal Ambivalence to Intersubjective AmbiguityFrank Scalambrino