GOLDIE'S PUZZLING OF TWO FEELINGS: 'BODILY FEELING' AND 'FEELING TOWARD'

• Authors: Yang Sunny
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Emotion theorists have divided into two camps in contemporary discussion. The one claims that emotions are reducible to bodily feelings; the other holds that emotions are reducible to belief, desire or evaluative judgement. In an effort to avoid such reduced view, Goldie suggests that emotions involve two kinds of feelings: bodily feelings and feeling towards. In spite of Goldie's efforts, the author argues that explaining our emotional disposition in terms of 'feeling toward' remains distinctly unsatisfactory. Furthermore, though sympathetic to his project, the author gives reasons for doubting that there are two such distinct kinds of feeling, one of which has only borrowed intentionality, while the other has intentionality intrinsically.

Keywords

EN

BODILY FEELING; EMOTION; FEELING-TOWARD; GOLDIE PETER

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 317-327
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Yang Sunny

• Sunny Yang, Institute of Philosophy, Seoul National University, South Korea; www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/organon

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09SKAAAA07043