Philosophie der Gefühle zwischen Feeling-Theorien, Kognitionstheorien und Axiologie

• Main Author: Susanne Moser
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Axia Academic Publishers 2014-08-01
• Series: Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics
• Subjects: Emotions, Feelings, Intentionality, Values, Cognitivism, Brain Research, Emmanuel Kant, William James, Joseph LeDoux, Paul Ekman, Ronald de Sousa
• Online Access: http://www.axiapublishers.com/ojs/index.php/labyrinth/article/view/31
• ISSN: 2410-4817; 1561-8927

Philosophy of Emotions between Feeling-Theories, Cognition-Theories, and Axiology The article addresses some central philosophical issues in the current philosophical research on emotions. There are, on the one hand, those theories that owe their ancestry to the work of William James, arguing that emotions are bodily feelings or perceptions of bodily feelings; and, on the other hand, those theories that owe their ancestry to Aristotle and Brentano arguing that emotions are cognitive, world-directed intentional states. The author points out that emotions became the focus of vigorous interest in philosophy as well as in other branches of the cognitive sciences. In view of the proliferation of the increasingly fruitful exchanges between researchers of different stripes, it is no longer useful to speak of the philosophy of emotions as a research area isolated from the approaches of other disciplines, as for example psychology, neurology, and evolutionary biology.