Professional Documents
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(Course: EMOTIONS: a Philosophical Introduction)
By Prof. Dr. Jordi Vallverdú, UAB
1st week
From where come from emotions?
Darwin, C. (1872) The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, London: John
Murray.
Frijda, N. (1986) The Emotions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
James, W. (1884) ‘What Is an Emotion?’, Mind, 9(34): 188‐205.
LeDoux, J. (1998) The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional
Life, New York: Simon and Schuster.
Nummenmaa, L. et al (2014) Bodily maps of emotions, PNAS, 111(2): 646‐651.
Oatley, K., & Jenkins, J.M. (1998) Understanding emotions. Blackwell, Oxford.
Plutchik, R. (1980) Emotion ‐ A Psychoevolutionary Synthesis, London: Longman.
Prinz, J. (2004) Gut Reactions: a Perceptual Theory of Emotion, Oxford: OUP.
Solomon, R. (ed.) (2003) What is an Emotion? Classic and Contemporary Readings,
Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press.
2nd week
How many emotions do exist?
Ekman, P. (1992) “An Argument for Basic Emotions”. In: Stein, N. L., and Oatley, K. Eds.
Basic Emotions, 169‐200. Hove, UK: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Ekman, P. (1972) Emotions in the Human Face, New York: Pergamon Press.
Gross, L. (ed.) (2007) Handbook of Emotional Regulation NY: Guilford Press.
Kagan, J. (2007) What is Emotion? History, Measures, and Meanings, New Haven, CT:
Yale University Press.
Lazarus, R. (1991) Emotion and Adaptation, New York: Oxford University Press.
Nesse, R.W. (2009), “Evolution, emotions and emotional disorders”, American
Psychologist, 64(2): 129‐139
Nisbet, R.E. (2003). The Geography of Thought. NY: The Free Press.
Parrott, W. (2001) Emotions in Social Psychology, Psychology Press, Philadelphia.
Rizzolatti, G. & Craighero, L. (2004) “The Mirror‐Neuron System”, Annual Review of
Neuroscience, 27: 169‐192.
Solomon, R. (1984) The Passions: The Myth and Nature of Human Emotions, New York:
Doubleday.
3rd week
What does feel a plant?
Bekoff M., Allen C., Burghardt G.M. (eds) (2002) The Cognitive Animal: Empirical and
Theoretical Perspectives on Animal Cognition, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Brooks, R. (1999) Cambrian Intelligence. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
Calvo Garzón, P. (2007) “The quest for cognition in plant neurobiology”, Plant Signal
Behav, 2:208‐211.
Calvo Garzón P., Gomila T. (eds.) (2008) Handbook of Cognitive Science: An Embodied
Approach, UK: Elsevier.
Coplan, A. & Goldie, P. (eds.) (2011) Empathy: Philosophical and Psychological
Perspectives, NY: Oxford University Press.
Evans, D. (2001) Emotions: The Science of Sentiment, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gigerenzer, G. (2007) Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious, NY: Viking.
Harré, R. (1986) The Social Construction of Emotions, Oxford: Blackwell.
Shaviro, S. (2011) Cognition and Decision in Non‐Human Biological Organisms, USA:
Open Humanities Press.
Shettleworth, S.J. (1998) Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior, New York: OUP.
Zajonc, R. (1980 )”Feeling and Thinking: Preferences Need No Inferences”, American
Psychologist, 35: 151–175.
4th week
A neuroanthropological approach to emotions
Axelrod, R. (1997) The Complexity of Cooperation, Princeton: Princeton University
Press.
Davies, J. & Spencer, D. (2015) Emotions in the Field. The Psychology and Anthropology
of Fieldwork Experience, USA: Santford University Presss.
Dawkins, R. (1988) The Selfish Gene. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Decety, J., & Lamm, C. (2006) “Human empathy through the lens of social
Neuroscience”, The Scientific World Journal, 6: 1146–1163.
Dixon, T. (2003) From Passions to Emotions: The Creation of a Secular Psychological
Category, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Joyce, R. (2006) The Evolution of Morality, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Lövheim, H. (2912) “A new three‐dimensional model for emotions and monoamine
Neurotransmitters”, Medical Hypotheses, 78: 341–348.
Lutz, C. (1988) Unnatural emotions, USA: UCP.
Llinás, R.R. (2001). I of the Vortex. From neurons to Self. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Ramachandran, V.S., (2004) A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness, Pi Press, Pearson
Education, New York.
Ratcliffe, M. (2008) Feelings of being: Phenomenology, psychiatry and the sense of
reality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Rizzolatti, G., & Craighero, L. (2004). The mirror‐neuron system. Annual Review of
Neuroscience, 27, 169–92.
Zborowski, M. (1969) People in Pain, San Francisco: Jossey‐Bass, Inc. Publications.
5th week
The philosophies on emotions
Ben‐Ze’ev, A. (2000) The Subtlety of Emotions, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press .
Colombetti, G. (2014) The feeling body: Affective science meets the enactive mind.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Damasio, A. (1994) Descartes’ Error, New York: Gosset/Putnam Press.
Damasio, A. (1999) The Feeling of What Happens. London: Heinemann.
Deonna, J.A. & Teroni, F. (2012) The emotions: A philosophical introduction, NY:
Routledge.
de Sousa, R. (1987), The Rationality of Emotion, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Elster, J. (1999) Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the Emotions, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Evans, D. & Cruse, P. (eds.) (2004) Evolution, Rationality, and Emotion, Oxford: OUP.
Gardiner, H. (1970) Feeling and Emotion: a History of Theories, Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood Press.
Goleman, D. (1995) Emotional Intelligence, NY: Bantam Books.
Goldie, P. (ed.) (2010) The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Emotion, Oxford:
Clarendon Press.
Hatzimoysis, A. (ed.) (2003) Philosophy and the Emotions, Cambridge, UK: CUP.
Hume, David, “Dissertation on the Passions”, in The Philosophical Works of David
Hume, vol. 4, Edinburgh, 1828.
Nussbaum, N. (2006) Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame and the Law, Princeton:
Princeton University Press.
Nussbaum, M. (2013) Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice, Cambridge, MA:
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Oakley, J. (1992) Morality and the Emotions, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Sartre, J.P. (1948) The Emotions: Outline of a Theory, NY: Philosophical Library.
Smith, A. (1759) Theory of Moral Sentiments
Thagard, P. (2006) Hot Thought: Mechanisms and Applications of Emotional Cognition,
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Varela, F. J., Thompson, E. Lutz, A. & Rosch, E. (1991) The embodied Mind: Cognitive
Science and Human experience, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
6th week
21st Century & emotions
Arbib, M., & Fellous, J.‐M. (2004) “Emotions: from brain to robot”, Trends in Cognitive
Sciences, 8(12), 554‐559.
Breazeal, C. (2002) Designing Sociable Robots, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
DeLancey, C. (2001) Passionate Engines: What Emotions Reveal about Mind and
Artificial Intelligence, Oxford: OUP.
Hudlicka, E. (2011) “Guidelines for Designing Computational Models of Emotions”,
International Journal of Synthetic Emotions, 2(1), 26‐78.
Minsky, M. (2007) The emotion machine: Commonsense thinking, artificial intelligence,
and the future of the human mind. USA: Simon & Schuster.
Picard, R.W. (1997) Affective Computing, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Sloman, A. (1987) “Motives, Mechanisms, and Emotions”, Cognition and Emotion,
1(3): 217‐33.
Taylor, J.G.; Fragopanagos, N. (2004) "Modelling human attention and
emotions," Neural Networks, 2004. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International Joint
Conference on , vol.1, no., pp. 4 vol. (xlvii+3302).
Vallverdú, J. & Casacuberta, D. (eds.) (2009) Handbook of Research on Synthetic
Emotions and Sociable Robotics: New Applications in Affective Computing and
Artificial Intelligence, USA: IGI Global Group.
Vallverdú, J., Casacuberta, D., Nishida, T., Ohmoto, O., Moran, S. and Lázare, S. (2013)
“From Computational Emotional Models to HRI”, International Journal of
Robotics Applications and Technologies 1(2): 11‐25.