What emotions really are : the problem of psychological categories / Paul E. Griffiths.
What emotions really are : the problem of psychological categories / Paul E. Griffiths.
What emotions really are : the problem of psychological categories / Paul E. Griffiths.
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Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1997.
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1997.
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N128.37/1
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English
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xi, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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1. Introduction -- 2. Philosophy and Emotion - The Poverty of Conceptual Analysis -- 3. The Psychoevolutionary Approach to Emotion -- 4. Affect Programs and Emotion Modules -- 5. The Higher Cognitive Emotions: Some Research Programs -- 6. The Social Construction of Emotion -- 7. Natural Kinds and Th...
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Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1997.
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Illinois
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1997.
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Paul E. Griffiths argues that most research on the emotions has been as misguided as Aristotelian efforts to study "superlunary objects" - objects outside the moon's orbit. Such subjects exist, of course, but studying them as a group produces no useful results because they share no traits other than an arbitrarily defined location. Similarly, Griff...
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What emotions really are : the problem of psychological categories / Paul E. Griffiths.
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Science and its conceptual foundations.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-276) and index.
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N128.37/1
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0226308723 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226308715 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226308715 (cloth : alk. paper)
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128.37
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991000621399702626
