Open AccessSeeing Complexity To Continue to Understand Emotions
Author(s) -
Dina Mendonça
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of emotion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2689-8187
DOI - 10.33497/2021.summer.7
Subject(s) - raising (metalworking) , field (mathematics) , epistemology , psychology , affective science , emotion classification , philosophy , cognitive psychology , engineering , mechanical engineering , mathematics , pure mathematics
Commentary on Michael S. Brady’s book, Emotion: The Basics, indicating that it offers an overview of the field of philosophy of emotions while raising awareness about the intrinsic complexity of the issues in emotion research. This makes it possible to show how emotion research is inevitably tied to specific philosophical assumptions. Three illustrations are discussed that hopefully also testify that, as Brady states, the philosophy of emotion is inevitably tied to the question of what it means to do philosophy.