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Fact and value in emotion /

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 ...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Charland, Louis C., Zachar, Peter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008.
Colección:Consciousness & emotion book series ; v. 4.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 of affectivity and emotion, and study one without the other. But what really is the basis for distinguishing fact and value in emotion and aff.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (vi, 212 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027291660
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9027241538
9789027241535