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PHIL 333: Philosophy of Emotions

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Featured Books

Moral Psychology of Emotions Series

The Moral Psychology of Admiration

By exploring the moral psychology of admiration the volume examines the nature of this emotion, how it relates to other emotions such as wonder, envy and pride and what role admiration plays in our moral lives.

The Moral Psychology of Amusement

This volume offers twelve essays from leading and emerging scholars that explore the moral quagmire that is the emotion of amusement. It is a collection that considers the moral psychology of amusement from a range of perspectives, going as far back as ancient Chinese and Greek philosophy up to the most current psychological and sociological findings.

The Moral Psychology of Anger

This collection provides an inclusive view of anger from a variety of philosophical perspectives.

The Moral Psychology of Boredom

In this volume, world-renowned researchers come together to explore a neglected but crucially important aspect of boredom: its relationship to morality.

The Moral Psychology of Compassion

The contributors to this volume draw on a variety of disciplines and methods in order to develop a more systematic and comprehensive understanding of this often-neglected moral emotion.

The Moral Psychology of Contempt

Introducing original work by philosophers and psychologists, this volume addresses empirical questions concerning contempt's emotional, cognitive, and behavioral signature.

The Moral Psychology of Curiosity

This original volume sees contemporary philosophers and psychologists examining the nature and value of curiosity, shedding light on some of its most interesting features and exploring its role in human experience.

The Moral Psychology of Disgust

In this volume, experts in the field come together to explore fundamental questions about the role that disgust plays (and ought to play) in our moral lives. This book features twelve new essays, nestled comfortably at the intersection of psychology and philosophy.

The Moral Psychology of Envy

The book explores the role of envy in society and its nature as a social emotion that is deeply concerned with both the self and others. It examines envy's morally problematic aspects but also its aspirations, its effects, and its manifestations in a variety of contexts both personal and political.

The Moral Psychology of Forgiveness

The book gathers together a diverse assembly of authors with publication and expertise in forgiveness, while centering the work of new voices in the field and pursuing new lines of inquiry grounded in empirical literature.

The Moral Psychology of Gratitude

This volume provides readers with the state-of-the-art in research on gratitude. It does so in the form of sixteen never-before published articles on the emotion by leading voices in philosophy and the sciences of the mind.

The Moral Psychology of Guilt

In this volume, philosophers and psychologists come together to think more systematically about the nature and value of guilt. 

The Moral Psychology of Hate

Provides the first systematic introduction to the moral psychology of hate compiling specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars with a wide range of disciplinary orientations.

The Moral Psychology of Hope

The contributions in this volume, written by leading scholars in the philosophy of hope, gives a systematic overview over the philosophical history of hope, about contemporary debates and about the role of hope in our collective life.

The Moral Psychology of Love

This volume explores the moral dimensions of love through the lenses of political philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. It attempts to discern how various social norms affect our experience and understanding of love, how love relates to other affective states such as emotions and desires, and how love influences and is influenced by reason.

The Moral Psychology of Pride

This edited collection of original essays examines pride from a variety of perspectives in philosophy, psychology, sociology and anthropology.

The Moral Psychology of Regret

While regret has been somewhat under-theorized as a subject worthy of serious and careful attention, this volume is offered with the intent of expanding the discourse on regret as an emotion of great moral significance that underwrites how we understand ourselves and each other.

The Moral Psychology of Sadness

This volume presents sadness as not merely a feeling or affect, but an emotion of great moral significance that in important ways underwrites how we understand ourselves and each other.

Featured Journals

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