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Emotion in Agency: The Problem of Cartesian Mind-Body Dualism and a Corrective from Spinoza

Emotion in Agency: The Problem of Cartesian Mind-Body Dualism and a Corrective from Spinoza

England, Renee

Hardcover

PhilosophyCognition

PREORDER - Expected ship date July 8, 2027

ISBN10: 166697868X
ISBN13: 9781666978681
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Jul 8 2027
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A Spinoza-inspired view of the self makes sense of the way emotions are vital to how we move through the world.

Due to the pervasive influence of Cartesian mind-body dualism, emotion is most often considered incidental or even inimical to agency, and therefore are left out of current discussions of the agential self. However, this book explores how recent and ongoing developments in philosophy, neuroscience, cognitive science, and psychology are expanding traditional paradigms of the self, consciousness and mind, demonstrating that these central features of human existence necessarily include emotional, bodily and environmental factors. If the self can no longer reasonably be regarded either as narrowly mental or fundamentally separate from the world, we need a more constructive role for emotion in agency.

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