Emotions as Natural and Normative Kinds
Griffiths, Paul E (2003) Emotions as Natural and Normative Kinds.
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Abstract
In earlier work I have claimed that emotion and some emotions are not ‘natural kinds’. Here I clarify what I mean by ‘natural kind’, suggest a new and more accurate term and discuss the objection that emotion and emotions are not descriptive categories at all, but fundamentally normative categories.
| Keywords: | emotion natural kinds normativity projectibility |
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| Subjects: | General Issues: Ethical Issues Specific Sciences: Psychology/Psychiatry |
| Conferences and Volumes: | [2002] Philosophy of Science Assoc. 18th Biennial Mtg - PSA 2002: Contributed Papers (Milwaukee, WI; 2002): PSA 2002 Symposia |
| ID Code: | 998 |
| Deposited By: | Griffiths, Paul Edmund |
| Deposited On: | 14 Febuary 2003 |