Emotions, Values, and the Law

by John Deigh

Book Overview

Emotions, Values, and the Law brings together ten of John Deigh's essays written over the past fifteen years. In the first five essays, Deigh ask questions about the nature of emotions and the relation of evaluative judgment to the intentionality of emotions, and critically examines the cognitivist theories of emotion that have dominated philosophy and psychology over the past thirty years. A central criticism of these theories is that they do not...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199843953
• ISBN13: 9780199843954
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"