Emotion and cognitive life in medieval and early modern philosophy /
This volume offers a much needed shift of focus in the study of emotion in the history of philosophy. Discussion has tended to focus on the moral relevance of emotions, and (except in ancient philosophy) the role of emotions in cognitive life has received little attention. Thirteen new essays invest...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Martin Pickavé and Lisa Shapiro
- Dispassionate passions / Peter King
- Why is the sheep afraid of the wolf? Medieval debates on animals passions / Dominik Perler
- John Duns Scotus on the passions of the will / Ian Drummond
- Intellections and volitions in Ockham's nominalism / Claude Panaccio
- Emotion and cognition in later Medieval philosophy: the case of Adam Wodeham / Martin Pickavé
- Sixteenth-century discussions of the passions of the will / Simo Knuuttila
- The philosopher as a lover: Renaissance debates on Platonic Eros / Sabrina Ebbersmeyer
- Reasons, causes, and inclinations / Paul Hoffman
- Using the passions / Dennis Des Chene
- How we experience the world: passionate perception in Descartes and Spinoza / Lisa Shapiro
- Agency and attention in Malebranche's theory of cognition / Deborah Brown
- Spinoza on passions and self-knowledge: the case of pride / Lilli Alanen
- Family trees: sympathy, comparison, and the proliferation of the passions in Hume and his predecessors / Amy L. Schmitter.