Conditional emotions
Journal article
Dietz, Christina. (2023). Conditional emotions. Philosophical Perspectives. 37(1), pp. 145-163. https://doi.org/10.1111/phpe.12184
Authors | Dietz, Christina |
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Abstract | Some conditional involving factive emotives present a prima facie challenge to the thesis that conditionals obey modus ponens. Drawing on recent work by Timothy Williamson, I offer an error-theoretic diagnosis of the phenomenon, one that appeals to a heuristic that we use in suppositional reasoning. Conditionals that embed factive emotives in the consequent seem to present a counterexample to modus ponens. In this essay, I present the puzzle and propose a solution—one that connects in interesting ways to the role of emotion in suppositional reasoning and in our cognitive lives more generally. |
Keywords | conditionals; factive emotives ; emotion; reasoning |
Year | 01 Jan 2023 |
Journal | Philosophical Perspectives |
Journal citation | 37 (1), pp. 145-163 |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. (US) |
ISSN | 1520-8583 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1111/phpe.12184 |
Web address (URL) | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/phpe.12184 |
Open access | Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Page range | 145-163 |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 13 Nov 2023 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 2023 |
Deposited | 16 Aug 2024 |
Additional information | © 2023 The Authors. Philosophical Perspectives published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. |
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. | |
Open access publishing facilitated by Australian Catholic University, as part of the Wiley - Australian Catholic University agreement via the Council of Australian University Librarians. | |
Place of publication | United States |
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