| In this unique contribution to philosophical debate, Craig DeLancey shows that our best understanding of emotion provides essential insight on key issues in philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence. DeLancey offers us a bold new approach to the study of the mind based on the latest scientific research, and provides an accessible overview of the science of emotion and explanation of the technical issues that arise, with minimal jargon.
This book is a survey of what basic emotions reveal about some central problems of the philosophy of mind. Given their relative importance to our mental lives, emotions remain the mental phenomena most neglected by contemporary philosophy of mind and the sciences of mind. This is not to deny that important work has been done in our time in the philosophy and science of emotions; rather, it is to note that for the traditional interests of philosophers of mind, cognitive scientists, artificial intelligence researchers, and many others, emotions remain peripheral, sometimes even a seemingly irrelevant issue. This is a glaring exception not only because emotions play such important roles, but also because the last several decades have seen a tremendous growth in our scientific understanding of emotions. In this book, I will show that a proper accounting of some of the emotions is essential to many of those aspects of the philosophy and sciences of mind heretofore considered distinct from them. Given our increased knowledge about emotions, the time is now ripe for an overview of how they reflect on some of the theoretical issues of these disciplines.
About the Author
Craig DeLancey is at SUNY Oswego. |
