The author's aim is to discover the conception of emotion that is couched in a commonsense view of the world and is reflected in ordinary discourse.
Helen Nissenbaum was a postdoctoral research
affiliate at CSLI. She is now (2014) Professor in Media, Culture, and
Communication & Computer Science and Director of the Information Law
Institute at New York University.
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
Part I
Object Directedness
- 1 The Problem of Object Directedness
- 1 Steps Toward a Conception of Object Directedness
- 2 Four Conditions on Object Directedness
- 3 The Problem
- 2 Views on Object Directedness
- 1 Hume
- 2 Kenny
- 3 Rorty and Solomon
- 4 Arnold
- 5 Wilson
- 3 Disbanding the Project
- 1 The Many Faces of Object Directedness
- 2 Uncovering the Differences
- 3 Dissecting Object Directedness
- 4 Aspects of Emotional Episodes
- 5 Arguments Against Relationality
- 6 Further Aspects of Emotional Episodes
- 7 Conclusion
Part II
Emotion
- 4 Two Theses
- 1 The Two Theses
- 2 Emotional Relations
- 5 Emotional Relations and the Active Emotions
- 1 The Active Emotions
- 2 Emotions as General Phenomena
- 3 The Picture Thus Far
- 4 Patterns and Constraints: The Connection
- 5 Conclusion
- 6 Pieces of the Pattern
- 1 Thinking
- 2 Action
- 3 Feeling
- 4 Salience
- 5 Summary
Part III
Emotion and Focus
- 7 Emotion and Focus
- 1 Relation to Focus
- 2 Intentionality
- 3 Summary and Conclusion
- 4 Directions for Future Research
- Appendix
- Bibliographical References