Emotion, Evolution and Rationality - Hardcover

9780198528975: Emotion, Evolution and Rationality

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198528973 ISBN 13: 9780198528975

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2004

Do our emotions stop us being rational? For thousands of years, emotions have been thought of as obstacles to intelligent thought. This view has been challenged in recent years by both philosophers and scientists. In this groundbreaking book, the first of its kind, leading thinkers from philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience challenge this commonly held view of emotion in a series of fascinating and challenging essays.

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Review

... a wealth of well-presented empirical findings, rich theorising and thought-provoking debate. The book should serve as an excellent summary of the current status of this fascinating and useful area and deserves to be widely read by any who are interested in the relation between cognition and emotion, in particular, perhaps, by those involved in the development of cognitive treatments for emotional disorders. (The Psychologist)

Emotion, Evolution and Rationality does an excellent job at clarifying the confusion surrounding an important area of evolutionary psychology - why emotions have evolved in humans. (The Psychologist)

About the Author

Dylan Evans is at Centre for Biomimetics and Natural Technology, University of Bath, Bath, U.K. . Pierre Cruse is at Centre de Philosophie des Sciences, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

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