Emotion, Attention, and Reason

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2024)
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Abstract

Our reasons for emotions such as sadness, anger, resentment, and guilt often remain long after we cease experiencing these emotions. This is puzzling. If the reasons for these emotions persist, why do the emotions not persist? Does this constitute a failure to properly respond to our reasons? In this paper we provide a solution to this puzzle. Our solution turns on the close connection between the rationality of emotion and the rationality of attention, together with the differing reasons to which attention and emotion are properly responsive.

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Andrew Peet
UmeƄ University
Eli Pitcovski
Tel-Hai College

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