Gut Reactions: A Perceptual Theory of Emotion

by Jesse J. Prinz

Book Overview

Gut Reactions is an interdisciplinary defense of the claim that emotions are perceptions in a double sense. First of all, they are perceptions of changes in the body, but, through the body, they also allow us to literally perceive danger, loss, and other matters of concern. This proposal, which Prinz calls the embodied appraisal theory, reconciles the long standing debate between those who say emotions are cognitive and those who say they are noncognitive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195309367
• ISBN13: 9780195309362
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.3"