Ballard, Brian
(2017)
Sensing Values: A Study of the Epistemic Significance of Emotional Experience.
Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
The relation between emotion and value is one of the great longstanding issues in value theory. Anti-realists often have ready accounts of the nature of this relation. For instance, some anti-realists hold that emotions somehow construct evaluative facts. However, it is less obvious how a realist should understand the emotion-value relation. Some realists leave emotions out of the picture altogether, while others regard them as pernicious influences. The present work seeks to address this. My goal is to characterize the emotion-value relation in a way that is amenable to a robust form of value realism, and which gives emotions an indispensable epistemic role. The key theses I argue for are (1) that emotions provide epistemic benefits with respect to value but that presently no account succeeds in saying how they do this and what those benefits are; (2) that emotions represent evaluative properties, and that each emotion represents a unique evaluative property; and (3) that emotions represent evaluative properties in a distinctive way that can be modeled after pictorial styles of representation.
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University of Pittsburgh ETD
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Unpublished |
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Date: |
23 September 2017 |
Date Type: |
Publication |
Defense Date: |
4 May 2017 |
Approval Date: |
23 September 2017 |
Submission Date: |
9 July 2017 |
Access Restriction: |
No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately. |
Number of Pages: |
141 |
Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
Schools and Programs: |
Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > Philosophy |
Degree: |
PhD - Doctor of Philosophy |
Thesis Type: |
Doctoral Dissertation |
Refereed: |
Yes |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Emotion; Value; Representation; Iconicity; Moral Knowledge |
Date Deposited: |
23 Sep 2017 23:39 |
Last Modified: |
23 Sep 2017 23:39 |
URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/32722 |
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