Emotion – The Brains Blog

In this series, I summarized major arguments in A Suspicious Science: The Uses of Psychology. My exploration of the uses of psychology has emphasized the explanatory roles it fulfills within broa...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2023/03/31/creative-uses-of-psychology-and-reflexivity.aspx

Italian Association of Cognitive Science (AISC) midterm conference 2022 June 22-24, 2022 – University of Parma  Overview The 2022 Italian Association of Cognitive Science (AISC) midterm Confer...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2022/01/12/call-for-papers-the-affective-turn-in-cognitive-science.aspx

The primate mind of action-oriented and pushmi-pullyu representations receives a new layer of delayed-action-orientated and then reflection-oriented representations.

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2020/02/21/evolution-of-concepts.aspx

Affect as conative motivational drive is amenable to being decoupleable because it predates—and remains functional—through all evolutionarily later cognitive abilities

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2020/02/20/decoupling.aspx

A large part of our book is thus dedicated to articulating an affect-based bio-semantics, but we also take a run at pre-linguistic syntax or grammar.

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2020/02/19/embodied-grammars.aspx

The study of emotions, the so-called affective turn, allows us to rethink crucial elements in psychology and philosophy of mind. There has been a concurrent surge in creative research and theory ...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2020/02/18/affordances-and-motivation.aspx

In our new book, we argue that emotional systems are central to understanding the evolution of the human mind (as well as those of our primate cousins).

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2020/02/16/the-emotional-mind-the-affective-roots-of-culture-and-cognition.aspx

For the last day of blogging my book The Emotional Mind, I’m going to skip straight to the last chapter on mental architecture. This is where propose a control theory of the mind as a whole. It...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2019/02/15/5-a-control-theory-of-the-mind.aspx

An important aspect of emotions that is relatively neglected in both the philosophical and psychological literature is their social manifestation. There is plenty of work on empathy, the role of ...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2019/02/14/4-what-makes-a-social-emotion.aspx

Today I will summarise the account of pain and pleasure provided in The Emotional Mind. This builds on the account of valent representation that I outlined yesterday. However, the first thing to ...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2019/02/13/3-pain-and-pleasure.aspx