A Sentimentalist Theory of the Mind

by Michael Slote

Michael Slote argues that emotion is involved in all human thought and action on conceptual grounds, rather than merely being causally connected with other aspects of the mind. This kind of general sentimentalism about the mind goes beyond that advocated by Hume, and the book's main arguments are only partially anticipated in German Romanticism and in the Chinese philosophical tendency to avoid rigid distinctions between thought and emotion. The new...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019937175X
• ISBN13: 9780199371754
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.4"