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Do Emotions Represent Values?

Author(s) -

Schroeter Laura,

Schroeter François,

Jones Karen

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

dialectica

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.483

H-Index - 27

eISSN - 1746-8361

pISSN - 0012-2017

DOI - 10.1111/1746-8361.12108

Subject(s) - direct and indirect realism , perception , epistemology , representation (politics) , relation (database) , value (mathematics) , psychology , philosophy , cognitive psychology , political science , computer science , database , machine learning , politics , law

This paper articulates what it would take to defend representationalism in the case of emotions – i.e. the claim that emotions attribute evaluative properties to target objects or events. We argue that representationalism faces a significant explanatory challenge that has not yet been adequately recognized. Proponents must establish that a representation relation linking emotions and value is explanatorily necessary. We use the case of perception to bring out the difficulties in meeting this explanatory challenge.

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