Location
University of Windsor
Document Type
Paper
Keywords
Aristotle, Ben-Ze’ev, Davidson, de Sousa, emotions, evaluative attitudes, Nussbaum, rea-sons, value judgments
Start Date
18-5-2011 9:00 AM
End Date
21-5-2011 5:00 PM
Abstract
This paper pictures emotions as able to provide reasons for action in so far as the beliefs and desires which make up reasons for action are constitutive elements of emotions themselves. It claims that the states of the world which prompt emotional attitudes “justify” them in so far as they render the beliefs constitutive of those attitudes true. Finally, it addresses the question what can make the desires or valuings ingredient to emotions appropriate to their objects.
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This paper pictures emotions as able to provide reasons for action in so far as the beliefs and desires which make up reasons for action are constitutive elements of emotions themselves. It claims that the states of the world which prompt emotional attitudes “justify” them in so far as they render the beliefs constitutive of those attitudes true. Finally, it addresses the question what can make the desires or valuings ingredient to emotions appropriate to their objects.
