Embodied Emotions by Rebekka Hufendiek

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In this book, Rebekka Hufendiek explores emotions as embodied, action-oriented representations, providing a non-cognitivist theory of emotions that accounts for their normative dimensions. Embodied Emotions will be of interest to philosophers working on emotions, embodied cognition and situated cognition.

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Embodied Emotions by Rebekka Hufendiek

In this book, Rebekka Hufendiek explores emotions as embodied, action-oriented representations, providing a non-cognitivist theory of emotions that accounts for their normative dimensions. Embodied Emotions will be of interest to philosophers working on emotions, embodied cognition and situated cognition.

"The book is densely and carefully argued and its explanatory scope is highly ambitious.. On the whole, the book lives up entirely to its title. Hufendiek offers a carefully developed alternative to the lasting debate between cognitivists and feeling theories and overcomes what she sees as shortcomings of alternative theories." -- Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences

"Rebekka Hufendiek presents and defends a position on emotions which is critical both of existing cognitivist as well as embodied and enactive approaches. She agrees with embodied approaches that cognitivists overintellectualize emotions and neglect the importance of the body. Yet she also is dissatisfied with the main embodied and enactive accounts ... The book is well organized, and the prose is clear ... If the book is seen as an exploration of where these ideas lead, as testing the waters rather than as offering a fully elaborated novel theory of emotions, it can be said to achieve its goals." -- Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Rebekka Hufendiek is a postdoctoral candidate at the University of Basel. Her research focuses on philosophy of mind and psychology with a particular intereest in embodied cognition, emotion theories and naturalism. She has written several papers and reviews on embodiment, emotions, the modularity of mind and the vices and virtues of naturalist approaches to the mind.

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ISBN 13 9781138387157
ISBN 10 1138387150
Title Embodied Emotions
Author Rebekka Hufendiek
Series Routledge Studies In Contemporary Philosophy
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Routledge
Year published 2018-09-27
Number of pages 204
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.