What Is an Emotion?

Preface Introduction: "What Is an Emotion?": I. THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Aristotle From Rhetoric From On the Soul From Nicomachean Ethics The Stoics From Early Stoics From Seneca, De Ira From Galen, On the Doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato René Descartes From The Passions of the Soul Benedict Spinoza From Ethics David Hume From A Treatise of Human Nature II. THE MEETING OF PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY Charles Robert Darwin From The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals William James From What Is an Emotion? Walter B. Cannon From Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage John Dewey From The Theory of Emotion Sigmund Freud From The Unconscious Anxiety (From General Lectures on Psychoanalysis) Stanley Schachter and Jerome E. Singer From Cognitive, Social, and Physiological Determinants of Emotional State Paul Ekman From Biological and Cultural Contributions to Body and Facial Movement in the Expression of Emotions Richard Lazarus Appraisal: The Minimal Cognitive Prerequisites of Emotion Nico Frijda Emotions are Functional, Most of the Time Catherine Lutz From Unnatural Emotions Antonio Damasio From The Feeling of What Happens III. THE CONTINENTAL TRADITION Franz Brentano From On the Origin of Our Knowledge of Right and Wrong Max Scheler From Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values Martin Heidegger Charles Guignon, Moods in Heidegger's Being and Time Jean-Paul Sartre From The Emotions: A Sketch of a Theory IV. CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS AND EMOTION Gilbert Ryle From The Concept of Mind Errol Bedford From Emotions Anthony Kenny From Action, Emotion and Will Robert C. Solomon From Emotions and Choice Cheshire Calhoun Cognitive Emotions? Ronald De Sousa From The Rationality of Emotion Michael Stocker The Irreducibility of Affectivity Patricia Greenspan Reasons to Feel Martha Nussbaum Emotions as Judgements of Value and Importance Paul Griffiths From What Emotions Really Are Bibliography