Epistemology and Emotions

Ashgate Epistemology and Mind Series: Volume 13, Issue 8

by Georg Brun, Ulvi Doguoglu & Dominique Kuenzle (Editors)

Epistemology and Emotions is a recent addition to Ashgate's Epistemology and Mind series which focuses on contemporary international research at the intersection of metaphysics, epistemology and the philosophy of language. The papers collected in this volume discuss the recent "optimistic trend" in which emotions are seen as sometimes playing a positive epistemic role rather than, as they have traditionally been seen, as impairing cognition and as opposed to reason..."

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