Ambivalence for cognitivists: a lesson from chrysippus?

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2017

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Wringe, B.

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Thought

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2161-2234

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John Wiley and Sons Ltd

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6

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3

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147 - 156

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English

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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.

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