Evaluating Emotions [Hardcover]

How are emotions related to values? This book argues against a perceptual theory of emotions, which sees emotions as perception-like states that help us gain evaluative knowledge, and argues for a caring-based theory of emotions, which sees emotions as felt desires or desire satisfactions, both of which arise out of caring about something.Abstract Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Analogy Between Emotions and Judgements 2. The Analogy Between Values and Secondary Qualities 3. Arguments from Best Explanation 4. The Functional Argument 5. Caring 6. Caring-based Emotions Bibliography IndexEva-Maria D?ringer is Assistant Professor at the Philosophy Department of the University of T?bingen, Germany.