Fact and Value in Emotion

Bys: Peter Zachar and Louis C. Charland

There is a large amount of scientific work on emotion in psychology, neuroscience, biology, physiology, and psychiatry, which assumes that it is possible to study emotions and other affective states, objectively. Emotion science of this sort is concerned primarily with 'facts' and not 'values', with 'description' not 'prescription'. The assumption behind this vision of emotion science is that it is possible to distinguish factual from evaluative aspects...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027241538
• ISBN13: 9789027241535
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.