On Affect: Function and Phenomenology

Humana Mente 11 (34):155-184 (2018)
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This paper explores the nature of emotions by considering what appear to be two differing, perhaps even conflicting, approaches to affectivity—an evolutionary functional account, on the one hand, and a phenomenological view, on the other. The paper argues for the centrality of the notion of function in both approaches, articulates key differences between them, and attempts to understand how such differences can be overcome.

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Replies to Contesi, Hardcastle, Pismenny, and Gallegos.Andreas Elpidorou - 2022 - Journal of Philosophy of Emotion 3 (2):44-77.

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Functional analysis.Robert E. Cummins - 1975 - Journal of Philosophy 72 (November):741-64.
Sein und Zeit.Martin Heidegger - 1927 - Annalen der Philosophie Und Philosophischen Kritik 7:161-161.
Functions.Larry Wright - 1973 - Philosophical Review 82 (2):139-168.

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