In a Sentimental Mood
Emotion, Evolution, and Expression
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 12 January 2026
- ISBN 9780197820438
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 201x140x30 mm
- Weight 408 g
- Language English 662
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Short description:
In a Sentimental Mood integrates the best work in the natural and social sciences with human lived experience to understand what emotions are and how they are expressed. It attempts to do justice to scientific findings in neuroscience, psychology, evolutionary biology, anthropology all the while keeping our sense of ourselves central. Emotion is a special form of perception which is found throughout cultures. Though emotions evolved over generational time, there is much more work to be done to get the details right. Nevertheless, emotions and their expression are key to understanding the meaning of social and moral expression. In the end, the book provides a unified, naturalistic account of our part of human life.
MoreLong description:
Emotion, and its expression, is present in almost every facet of life: in our personal relationships, morality, politics, and art. Over time, emotions have evolved and have become intimately connected to our bodies, as matters of existential and scientific importance. In a Sentimental Mood is a philosophical examination of what emotion is, the kinds of emotions there are, and the ways in which they are expressed in our behavior and other social and moral expressions.
Jay Odenbaugh's goal is to integrate the diverse work in psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and behavioural ecology with that from the philosophy of biology and psychology. This integration provides a unified, naturalistic understanding of this key component of human experience. Odenbaugh argues that emotion is a multimodal perceptual experience integrating exteroception and interoception. They are seamlessly about our environment, ourselves, and more specifically how we are faring in that environment. Many are natural kinds in virtue of being causally structured clusters of elicitors, behaviours, and autonomic nervous activities. Emotions are culturally widespread even with local inflections of place. Finally, Odenbaugh fruitfully integrates the nature of moral judgments with the resources of teleosemantics and hybrid expressivism. These judgments both describe and direct us to reciprocate, aid, and punish.
Covering a wide range of research on human evolution and culture and bringing them into conversation, In a Sentimental Mood provides a bold new account of human emotional experience while also providing a useful synthesis of the state of the art on the topic.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 What is Emotion? Emotion as Feeling or What James Got Right
1.1 Introduction
1.2. Theories of Emotion
1.2.1 William James and Bodily Feelings
1.2.2 Intentionality and Judgment
1.3 "Modified Jamesians"
1.4 Conclusion
Chapter 2 Inside and Out: Emotions are Multisensory Interoceptive/Exteroceptive Perceptions
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Representationalism
2.3 A Multisensory Perceptual Theory of Emotion
2.3.1 Preliminaries
2.3.2 Alternative Perceptual Theories
2.3.3 Emotions as Multisensory Perceptions
2.3.4 Emotions as Multisensory Exteroceptive and Interoceptive Perceptions
2.3.5 The Theory of Constructed Emotion
2.4 Objections
2.5 Conclusion
Chapter 3 Ties that Bind: Emotions are Natural Kinds
3.1 Introduction
3.2. Natural Kinds
3.3 Emotions and Affect Programs
3.3.1 Facial expressions
3.3.2 Autonomic changes
3.3.3 Elicitors
3.4 Barrett's critique - death by a thousand cuts
3.4.1 Weak Correlations
3.4.2 Ecological Validity
3.5 Griffith's Eliminativism
Chapter 4 A Teleosemantic Account of Emotions and Their Functions
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Functions
4.3. Teleosemantics and Evolution
4.4 Disambiguating Questions
4.5 Conclusion
Chapter 5 Cooperation, Commitment, or Culture: How Emotions May Have Evolved
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Ledoux on Fear
5.3 Cosmides and Tooby on Emotion; Buss on Jealousy
5.4 Trivers on Reciprocal Altruism
5.5 Boyd, Richerson, Bowles, and Gintis on Cultural Group Selection
5.6 Frank on commitment devices
5.7 Emotions and their functions redux
Chapter 6 Pressing Out: Emotional Expression as Designed Showing
6.1. Introduction
6.2 Darwin on Expression: Going the Whole Orang
6.3 What Exactly is Expression?
6.4 Expression as designed showing
6.5 Objections to Green's Account
6.5.1 Expression without self-expression
6.5.2 Expression, reporting, and showing-that
6.5.3 Self-expression and expressivism
6.6 Artifact Expression and Artworks
6.7 Conclusion
Chapter 7 Wise Choices or Apt Feelings? A Hybrid Expressivist View of Moral Judgment
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Sentimentalism
7.3. Philosophical Stage-Setting
7.4 Empirical Evidence
7.4.1 The Emotional Brain
7.4.2 Incidental Disgust
7.4.3 Moral Dumbfounding
7.4.4 Psychopathy
7.5 Emotion, the moral problem, and expressivism
7.6 Conclusion
