The Emotional Brain Revisited

The Emotional Brain Revisited Joseph LeDoux and Michael Heller and Bartosz Brozek and Jacek Debiec

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The Emotional Brain Revisited tackles various issues at play in the current neuroscientific, psychological, and philosophical research on emotions. The book discusses such topics as the role of amygdala in the emergence of emotions, the place of the affect within the psychological construction of the agent, insights from the research on emotions in animals, and the relation between emotions, rationality, morality, and law. Furthermore, various conceptual controversies underlying the empirical studies on emotions are considered. [Subject: Philosophy, Psychology, Cognitive Science]

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calendar_today 2014
qr_code_2 9788378860426
language EN
description 372 pages

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The Emotional Brain Revisited tackles various issues at play in the current neuroscientific, psychological, and philosophical research on emotions. The book discusses such topics as the role of amygdala in the emergence of emotions, the place of the affect within the psychological construction of the agent, insights from the research on emotions in animals, and the relation between emotions, rationality, morality, and law. Furthermore, various conceptual controversies underlying the empirical studies on emotions are considered. [Subject: Philosophy, Psychology, Cognitive Science]

business Copernicus Center Press
menu_book Hardcover
calendar_today 2014
qr_code_2 9788378860426
language EN
description 372 pages