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Emotions and understanding : Wittgensteinian perspectives / edited by Ylva Gustafsson, Camilla Kronqvist, Michael McEachrane - Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 - x, 240 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Wittgenstein's commonsense realism about the mind / Alice Crary -- Wittgenstein on emotion / Joachim Schulte -- The conceptual framework for the investigation of emotions / P.M.S. Hacker -- Emotion-philosophy-science / Phil Hutchinson -- Capturing emotional thoughts: the philosophy of cognitive-behavioral therapy / Michael McEachrane --The self and the emotions / John V. Canfield -- What's in a smile? / Lars Hertzberg -- Emotion, expression and conversation / David Cockburn -- Illusions of empathy / Ylva Gustafsson -- The fiction of paradox: really feeling for Anna Karenina / Daniéle Moyal-Sharrock -- On the pursuit of happiness / Duncan Richter -- Our struggles with reality / Camilla Kronqvist -- Extreme aversive emotions: a Wittgensteinian approach to dread / Rupert Read

ISBN: 9780230201446 (hbk.) 023020144X

Subjects--Personal Names:
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Emotions (Philosophy)
Philosophy of mind