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" Gut reactions : "
by Jesse J. Prinz.
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BL
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623703
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| Main Entry
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Prinz, Jesse J.
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| Title & Author
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Gut reactions : : a perceptual theory of emotion /\ by Jesse J. Prinz.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2004.
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Philosophy of mind series
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ix, 271 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm.
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0195151453 (alk. paper)
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: 9780195151459 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-264) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: piecing passions apart -- Feeling without thinking -- Embodied appraisals -- Basic emotions and natural kinds -- Emotions and nature -- Emotions and nurture -- Valence -- A typology of affective states -- Emotional consciousness -- Is getting mad like seeing red? -- Coda: parting ways.
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"Gut Reactions is an interdisciplinary defense of the claim that emotions are perceptions of changes in the body. This thesis, pioneered by William James and resuscitated by Antonio Damasio, has been widely criticized for failing to acknowledge that emotions are meaningful insofar as they represent concerns, not respiratory function and blood pressure. Fear represents danger, sadness represents loss. To explain this fact, many researchers conclude that emotions must involve judgments regarding one's relationship to the environment. Prinz offers a new unified account of the emotions that reconciles these two theories. He argues that emotions are embodied appraisals - they are perceptions of the body, but, through the body, they also allow us to literally perceive danger, loss, and other matters of concern."--BOOK JACKET.
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Emotions.
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Perception.
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Psychophysiology.
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152.4
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