Table of Contents
Part I - Neuroscientific Foundations 1. William James and the modern neurobiology of emotion, Antonio Damasio
2. Homologizing human emotions, Andrew Lawrence and Andrew Calder
Part II - Emotion, Belief and Appraisal
3. Emotional behaviour and the scope of belief-desire explanation, Finn Spicer
4. Emotion, psychosemantics and embodied appraisals, Jesse Prinz
5. Towards a 'Machiavellian' theory of emotional appraisal, Paul Griffiths
6. Unpicking reasonable emotions, Brian Parkinson
Part III - Evolution and the Rationality of Emotion
7. Evolution, culture and the irrationality of the emotions, Chandra Sripada and Stephen Stich
8. The role of emotions in ecological and practical rationality, Gianmatteo Mameli
9. The search hypothesis of emotion, Dylan Evans
10. Adaptive illusions: optimism, control and human rationality, Daniel Nettle
11. Emotion versus reason as a genetic conflict, Christopher Badcock
Part IV - Philosophical Perspectives
12. Conscience and conflict: Darwin, Freud and the origins of human aggression, Jim Hopkins
13. Emotion, reason and virtue, Peter Goldie