Conditional emotions

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Dietz, Christina. (2023). Conditional emotions. Philosophical Perspectives. 37(1), pp. 145-163. https://doi.org/10.1111/phpe.12184
AuthorsDietz, Christina
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.

Keywordsconditionals; factive emotives ; emotion; reasoning
Year01 Jan 2023
JournalPhilosophical Perspectives
Journal citation37 (1), pp. 145-163
PublisherWiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. (US)
ISSN1520-8583
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1111/phpe.12184
Web address (URL)https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/phpe.12184
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Accepted2023
Deposited16 Aug 2024
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