Ambivalence for cognitivists: a lesson from chrysippus?
Date
2017
Authors
Wringe, B.
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Thought
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2161-2234
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Volume
6
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3
Pages
147 - 156
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English
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Abstract
Ambivalence—where we experience two conflicting emotional responses to the same object, person or state of affairs—is sometimes thought to pose a problem for cognitive theories of emotion. Drawing on the ideas of the Stoic Chrysippus, I argue that a cognitivist can account for ambivalence without retreating from the view that emotions involve fully-fledged evaluative judgments. It is central to the account I offer that emotions involve two kinds of judgment: one about the object of emotion, and one about the subject's response.