The Rationality of Emotion

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In this urbane and witty book, Ronald de Sousa disputes the widespread notion that reason and emotion are natural antagonists. He argues that emotions are a kind of perception, that their roots in the paradigm scenarios in which they are learned give them an essentially dramatic structure, and that they have a crucial role to-play in rational beliefs, desires, and decisions by breaking the deadlocks of pure reason.The book's twelve chapters take up the following topics: alternative models of mind and emotion, the relation between evolutionary, physiological, and social factors in emotions, a taxonomy of objects of emotions, assessments of emotions for correctness and rationality, the regulation by emotions of logical and practical reasoning, emotion and time, the mechanism of emotional self-deception, the ethics of laughter, and the roles of emotions in the conduct of life. There is also an illustrative interlude, in the form of a lively dialogue about the ideology of love, jealousy, and sexual exclusiveness.A Bradford Book.