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Emotions, values, and agency /
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001	$ 442442
007	$ t
008	$ 190408s2016 enk u000 u eng d
020	$a9780199696512
100	$aTappolet, Christine$eautore
245	$aEmotions, values, and agency /$cChristine Tappolet.$hLibro
250	$aFirst edition published 2016
264	$aOxford :$bOxford University Press,$c2016
300	$axvi, 228 pagine ;$c22 cm
504	$aBibliografia: pagine [197]-217
505	$aEmotion and perception -- Emotion and motivation -- Emotion and values -- Emotion and responsibility -- Emotion and agency
520	$aThe emotions we experience are crucial to who we are, to what we think, and to what we do. But what are emotions, exactly, and how do they relate to agency? The aim of this book is to spell out an account of emotions, which is grounded on analogies between emotions and sensory experiences, and to explore the implications of this account for our understanding of human agency. The central claim is that emotions consist in perceptual experiences of values, such as the fearsome, the disgusting or the admirable. A virtue of this account is that it affords a better grasp of a variety of interconnected phenomena, such as motivation, values, responsibility and reason-responsiveness. In the process of exploring the implications of the Perceptual Theory of emotions, several claims are proposed. First, emotions normally involve desires that set goals, but they can be contemplative in that they can occur without any motivation. Second, evaluative judgements can be understood in terms of appropriate emotions in so far as appropriateness is taken to consist in correct representation. Third, by contrast with what Strawsonian theories hold, the concept of moral responsibility is not response-dependent, but the relationship between emotions and moral responsibility is mediated by values. Finally, in so far as emotions are perceptions of values, they can be considered to be perceptions of practical reasons, so that on certain conditions, acting on the basis of one's emotions can consist in responding to one's reasons
650	$aEmozioni (filosofia)
852	$m4-C-2459$xS