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By Rebekka Hufendiek

ISBN-10: 1138100250

ISBN-13: 9781138100251

In this publication, Rebekka Hufendiek explores feelings as embodied, action-oriented representations, delivering a non-cognitivist concept of feelings that debts for his or her normative dimensions. Embodied Emotions focuses not just at the physically reactions interested in feelings, but additionally at the atmosphere in which feelings are embedded and at the social personality of this atmosphere, its ontological structure, and how it scaffolds either the improvement of specific emotion kinds and the unfolding of person emotional episodes. additionally, it presents a severe assessment and appraisal of present empirical experiences, in general in psychophysiology and developmental psychology, that are relevant to discussions approximately even if feelings are embodied in addition to socially embedded. the speculation that Hufendiek places ahead denies the excellence among easy and better cognitive feelings: all feelings are embodied, action-oriented representations. This strategy can account for the advanced normative constitution of feelings, and stocks some great benefits of cognitivist debts of feelings with no sharing their difficulties. Embodied feelings makes an unique contribution to ongoing debates at the normative facets of feelings and should be of curiosity to philosophers engaged on feelings, embodied cognition and positioned cognition, in addition to neuroscientists or psychologists who examine feelings and have an interest in putting their very own paintings inside a broader theoretical framework.

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