Posidonius on emotionsand non-conceptual content
| dc.citation.epage | 213 | en_US |
| dc.citation.issueNumber | 2 | en_US |
| dc.citation.spage | 185 | en_US |
| dc.citation.volumeNumber | 10 | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Wringe, B. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-02-08T09:50:32Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-02-08T09:50:32Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | en_US |
| dc.department | Department of Philosophy | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | In this paper I argue that the work of the unorthodox Stoic Posidonius - as reported to us by Galen - can be seen as making an interesting contribution to contemporary debates about the nature of emotion. Richard Sorabji has already argued that Posidonius' contribution highlights the weaknesses in some well-known contemporary forms of cognitivism. Here I argue that Posidonius might be seen as advocating a theory of the emotions which sees them as being, in at least some cases, two-level intentional phenomena. One level involves judgments, just as the orthodox Stoic account does. But Posidonius thinks that emotions must also include an element sometimes translated as an "irrational tug". I suggest that we see the "irrational tug" as involving a second level of intentional, but non-conceptual representation. This view satisfies two desiderata: it is a viewwhich would have been available to Posidonius and which is compatible with the views reported to us; and it is a view which is independently attractive. It also makes Posidonius' position less far removed from that of orthodox Stoics than it might otherwise do, while remaining genuinely innovative. | en_US |
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| dc.identifier.issn | 1333-4395 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11693/21739 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Society for the Advancement of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia | en_US |
| dc.source.title | Prolegomena | en_US |
| dc.subject | Emotions | en_US |
| dc.subject | Galen | en_US |
| dc.subject | Irrational tug | en_US |
| dc.subject | Non-conceptual content | en_US |
| dc.subject | Posidonius | en_US |
| dc.title | Posidonius on emotionsand non-conceptual content | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
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