Emotion, Evolution and Rationality

by Dylan Evans

For thousands of years, many Western thinkers have assumed that emotions are, at best, harmless luxuries, and at worst outright obstacles to intelligent action. In the past decade, however, scientists and philosophers have begun to challenge this 'negative view of emotion'. Neuroscientists, psychologists and researchers in artificial intelligence now agree that emotions are vital to intelligent action. Evolutionary considerations have played a vital...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198528981
• ISBN13: 9780198528982
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"