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Not Passion's Slave: Emotions and Choice PDF

213 Pages·2003·1.543 MB·English
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by Robert Solomon| 2003| 213 pages| 1.543| English

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The late Robert Solomon is credited by philosophical friend and foe alike as pretty-much single-handedly rehabilitating the study of emotions in philosophy, with publication of his book The Passions in the early Seventies. This is probably true, though it does somewhat downplay how influential Kenny's earlier Action, Emotion and Will has been. Recently, authors such as Paul Griffiths in his book What Emotions Really Are and Jesse Prinz (author of Gut Reactions) have singled out Solomon as the crudist of the cognitivist theorists of emotion. Is this fair? Well the honest answer based on a thorough reading of Solomon's corpus is sometimes yes and sometimes no! Yes, sometimes he does offer hostage to fortune by, on his own admission, wanting to be a radical in the philosophy of the emotions: arguing that we choose our emotions and that emotions ARE judgments. No, in that he is quite clear in his later writings that the choice isn't straightforwardly under the individual's control and that the judgments which he claims constitute the emotion do not have to be propositional. His opponents fail to take on board these later qualifications. This collection contains some of the late papers and anyone who knows Solomon purely via critics such as Griffiths and/or via his own early book, The Passsions, might well be surprised at the contents. OK, so he might still have provided a theory that is ultimately flawed, but he was moving in the right direction. And he cetainly was not the crude cognitivist found in the caricatures provided by critics. For sure, the arguments of 'cognitivists' have got more subtle recently (see for example Phil Hutchinson's Shame and Philosophy and Robert C. Roberts' Emotions). And Solomon did have a tendency to polemicise and play the radical; but he is essential reading for anyone interested in the subject.

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Author:Robert Solomon
Publication Year:2003
ISBN:9780195145496
Pages:213
Language:English
File Size:1.543
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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