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1. Emotions as Evaluative 1. Emotions as Evaluative
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2. Belief-Based Views 2. Belief-Based Views
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3. Modifying Judgmentalism for Rationality Issues 3. Modifying Judgmentalism for Rationality Issues
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4. A Causal/Historical Approach 4. A Causal/Historical Approach
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5. Emotional Strategies 5. Emotional Strategies
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6. Emotions as Reasons 6. Emotions as Reasons
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7. Evaluative Affects 7. Evaluative Affects
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11 Practical Reasoning and Emotion
Get accessPatricia Greenspan is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland at College Park. Her research interests centre on moral philosophy and the philosophy of action, with current work on practical rationality and free will. She has published two books on emotion, Emotions and Reasons: An Inquiry into Emotional Justification (Routledge 1988), and Practical Guilt: Moral Dilemmas, Emotions, and Social Norms (Oxford University Press 1995), along with numerous articles on emotion and other topics relevant to metaethics and moral psychology.
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Published:02 September 2009
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Abstract
This article discusses emotion as an element of practical rationality. One approach links emotion to evaluative judgment and applies some variant of the usual standards of rational belief and decision making. An alternative, “paradigm scenarios” approach would appeal to the causal history of an emotion as determining rationality. However, in order to assess the appropriateness of particular instances of emotion, there is a need to refer to their propositional content or some kind of claim they make about the situation. As factors leading to action, emotions involve an element of uncontrol that is typically seen as undermining rationality but can sometimes be part of a longer-term rational strategy to the extent that states of affect modify the agent's practical options.
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