Mixed Feelings: Emotional Phenomena, Rationality and Vagueness - Hardcover

Ledwig, Marion

 
9783868380316: Mixed Feelings: Emotional Phenomena, Rationality and Vagueness

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This book opens up a new area of research by not only considering the rationality of such diverse phenomena as ordinary emotions, generalized anxiety disorder, social phobia, psychotic depression, major depressive disorder, and bipolar disorder, but also by evaluating the question whether the vagueness of these diverse disorders and emotions poses an obstacle to the rationality of these phenomena. As these emotional phenomena turn out to be vague on many different levels, an explanation is found for the millennia long dispute of which kind of phenomena fall under the emotions and whether such diverse phenomena as hope and alexithymia fall under the emotions. Since vagueness can be most easily identified in mixed feelings, the rationality of mixed feelings will also be dealt with.

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Marion Ledwig is currently visiting assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She has studied psychology and philosophy at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, and received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Konstanz, Germany. Her main interests are the philosophy of Thomas Reid, decision theory, emotion theory, philosophy of religion, and aesthetics. She is the author of "Reid's Philosophy of Psychology" (2005), "Emotions: Their Rationality and Consistency" (2006), and "Common Sense: Its History, Method, and Applicability" (2007).

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ISBN 10:  3110319128 ISBN 13:  9783110319125
Verlag: De Gruyter, 2009
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