Emotions and Understanding: Wittgensteinian Perspectives - Paperback

by Y. Gustafsson (Author), C. Kronqvist (Author), M. McEachrane (Author)

This unique collection of articles on emotion by Wittgensteinian philosophers provides a fresh perspective on the questions framing the current philosophical and scientific debates about emotions and offers significant insights into the role of emotions for understanding interpersonal relations and the relation between emotion and ethics.

Author Biography

JOHN V. CANFIELD is Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, Canada ALICE CRARY is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, New York, USA DAVID COCKBURN is Professor of Philosophy at University of Wales Lampeter, UK PETER M.S. HACKER is an Emeritus Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford, UK LARS HERTZBERG is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Åbo Akademi University, Finland PHIL HUTCHINSON is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK DANIÈLE MOYAL-SHARROCK is a Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, UK DUNCAN RICHTER is Professor of Philosophy at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia, USA RUPERT READ is a Reader in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK JOACHIM SCHULTE teaches at the University of Zürich, Switzerland