Knowing Emotions: Truthfulness and Recognition in Affective Experience

ISBN-13: 9780190492045 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 248 str.

Rick Anthony Furtak

Opis

In Knowing Emotions, Furtak argues that it is only through the emotions that we can perceive meaning in life, and only by feeling emotions that we are able to recognize the value or significance of anything whatsoever. Our affective responses and dispositions therefore play a critical role in human existence, and their felt quality is intimately related to the awareness they provide.

Recenzje

For much of [Furtak's book] I found myself nodding in agreement. ... Furtak has set out to explain how the 'somatic agitation we feel when we are affectively moved might actually contribute to the way that the emotions inform us about how things are going in our world of concern.' It is a worthy goal.

O autorze

Rick Anthony Furtak is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colorado College, where he has taught for over twelve years. His research focuses on philosophy of emotions and existential thought. He is also a poet and translator.