The Feeling Brain - The Thinking Soul

• Authors: Silvia Gáliková
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Recent advances in neuroscience have dramatically improved our understanding of human emotional states. With the help of new technologies and models, scholars are beginning to unravel the "mystery" of emotional life. Confusions in contemporary emotion studies are due to the traditional model of a person as a rational conscious agent. The paper highlights two problematic aspects of this prevailing model: the relation between emotion and reason and the relation between emotion and consciousness. Firstly, it is claimed that the difference between emotions and thoughts does not transcend their mutual interconnectivity. Secondly, conscious content and emotional responses are both products of specialized emotion systems that operate unconsciously. Both claims are supported by experimental findings and clinical practice.

Keywords

EN

reason; consciousness; impairment; passions; explanation

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 20
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 203-209

Dates

published

2010-09-01

online

2010-09-22

Contributors

author

Silvia Gáliková

• Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovakia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10023-010-0020-1