Emotion in Agency
The Problem of Cartesian Mind-Body Dualism and a Corrective from Spinoza
Emotion in Agency
The Problem of Cartesian Mind-Body Dualism and a Corrective from Spinoza
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A Spinoza-inspired view of the self makes sense of the way emotions are vital to how we move through the world.
Due to the pervasive influence of Cartesian mind-body dualism, emotion is most often considered incidental or even inimical to agency, and therefore are left out of current discussions of the agential self. However, this book explores how recent and ongoing developments in philosophy, neuroscience, cognitive science, and psychology are expanding traditional paradigms of the self, consciousness and mind, demonstrating that these central features of human existence necessarily include emotional, bodily and environmental factors. If the self can no longer reasonably be regarded either as narrowly mental or fundamentally separate from the world, we need a more constructive role for emotion in agency.
Renee England demonstrates, on one hand, that the legacy of Descartes's mind-body dualism continues to impact both philosophical and scientific research into the self, emotion and agency, even when a more expanded approach to the self and mind is explicitly adopted. On the other hand, England argues that the work of Spinoza can fruitfully correct the ongoing effects of mind-body dualism, particularly when the radical nature of Spinoza's monism is fully embraced. A Spinozist approach is furthermore strikingly compatible with contemporary perspectives. A model of the self, mind, and emotions developed from Spinoza and cashed out in contemporary terms effectively addresses key problems in both contemporary theory of emotion and prominent theories of selfhood. It reveals a relationship between emotion and agency that is both beneficial and essential.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Emotion vs Agency
Section 1. Spinoza
Chapter 1 Self and Reason
Chapter 2 The Affects
Chapter 3 Agency and the Relationality of the Self
Section 2. A Contemporary Spinozist Approach
Chapter 4 Spinoza in Relation to Contemporary Neuroscience
Chapter 5 Spinoza in Relation to Contemporary Psychology
Chapter 6 A Spinozist Approach in Contemporary terms
Section 3. The Emotions
Chapter 7 Cognitive vs Non-cognitive? Emotions as both Cognitive and Bodily
Chapter 8 Emotion as a Natural Kind
Section 4. Refiguring The Self
Chapter 9 David Velleman's Kantian-inspired, Socially-Enacted Self
Chapter 10 Dualism persists in Velleman's Account
Chapter 11 Kristján Kristjánsson's Humean “Soft Realist” Self
Chapter 12 Dualism persists in Kristjánsson's Account
Conclusion: Emotion and Agency
Bibliography
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Product details
| Published | Mar 04 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781978772113 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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