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The defectiveness of propaganda
No full textWe argue that political propaganda is a negative phenomenon, against a recent strain of philosophical theorizing that argues that political propaganda can sometimes be neutral or even positive. After an exploration of the sense and connotation of the word 'propaganda' in ordinary use and in the scholarly literature, we discuss Ross's initial account of propaganda as an epistemically defective form of political communication. We claim that, with some refinements, it is an explanatorily useful analysis. We then assess two prominent attempts that aim at classifying legitimate cases of public communication as cases of propaganda, namely Ross's revision of her previous model and Stanley's influential account. We show that some of the cases in contention are problematic and that the arguments the authors offer for classifying other non-problematic cases as propaganda are inconclusive. We also argue that the idea of considering legitimate public communication as propaganda is unmotivated
La nature des émotions : Une recension partisane
No full textIn this long review, I will offer a summary as well as critical comments, chapter by chapter, of Samuel Lepine's book La nature des émotions: Une introduction partisane [The nature of emotions: An opiniated introduction] (2023). I will briefly summarize the first few chapters and discuss in more detail the last three chapters, where the most novel and most interesting contributions of the author are to be found
La nature des émotions : Une recension partisane
No full textIn this long review, I will offer a summary as well as critical comments, chapter by chapter, of Samuel Lepine's book La nature des émotions: Une introduction partisane [The nature of emotions: An opiniated introduction] (2023). I will briefly summarize the first few chapters and discuss in more detail the last three chapters, where the most novel and most interesting contributions of the author are to be found
La nature des émotions : une recension partisane
No full textDans cette recension, je proposerai un résumé ainsi que des commentaires critiques, chapitre par chapitre, du livre de Samuel Lepine La nature des émotions : Une introduction partisane (2023). Je ferai un rapide compte-rendu des premiers chapitres, mais discuterai plus en détail les trois derniers, où se situent les contributions les plus inédites et, à mes yeux, les plus intéressantes.In this review, I will offer a summary as well as critical comments, chapter by chapter, of Samuel Lepine's book La nature des émotions: Une introduction partisane [The nature of emotions: An opiniated introduction] (2023). I will briefly summarize the first few chapters and discuss in more detail the last three chapters, where the most novel and most interesting contributions of the author are to be found
Emotion and Language in Philosophy
No full textIn this chapter, we start by spelling out three important features that distinguish expressives—utterances that express emotions and other affects—from descriptives, including those that describe emotions (Section 1). Drawing on recent insights from the philosophy of emotion and value (2), we show how these three features derive from the nature of affects, concentrating on emotions (3). We then spell out how theories of non-natural meaning and communication in the philosophy of language allow claims that expressives inherit their meaning from specificities of emotions—namely, from being felt, evaluative attitudes toward propositional or non-propositional contents (4)
The rationality of mood
No full textIn this article, I argue that at least some moods are affective episodes whose main difference from emotions is that their intentional objects, qua intentional objects, are not consciously available. I defend this claim by exposing an experiment where affective responses – moods, I maintain – are elicited by subliminal pictures (§2). I then show how everyday kinds of moods can also be plausibly interpreted as emotion-like affects whose intentional object is not conscious (§3). In the final section (§4), I borrow the six criteria for rationality that de Sousa proposed in The rationality of emotion and show how they can be used to argue that, if we conceive of moods as such, then they too can be rational
Lost in musical translation: A cross-cultural study of musical grammar and its relation to affective expression in two musical idioms between Chennai and Geneva
No full textCan music be considered a language of the emotions? The most common view today is that this is nothing but a Romantic cliché. Mainstream philosophy seems to view the claim that 'Music is the language of the emotions' as a slogan that was once vaguely defended by Rousseau, Goethe, or Kant, but that cannot be understood literally when one takes into consideration last century’s theories of language, such as Chomsky's on syntax or Tarski's on semantics (Scruton 1997: ch. 7, see also Davies 2003: ch. 8, and Kania 2012). In this chapter, I will show why this common view is unwarranted, and thus go against nowadays philosophical mainstream by defending what I call the musicalanguage hypothesis. In Section 1, I will introduce the musicalanguage hypothesis and present, based on empirical evidence, some of the many similarities between language and music and explain why we should take them seriously. I will introduce a framework that aims to explain the communicative power of music using what we already know about linguistic communication (1.1). I will then outline several working hypotheses about musical grammar, musical meaning, and affective meaning (1.2), and thus defend that music is indeed very close to literally be a language of the emotions. In Section 2, I will detail some of the methodology, expectations, and preliminary results of a cross-cultural study on musical grammar that I am presently conducting between South India (Chennai) and Switzerland (Geneva and Lausanne)4. This empirical study focuses on two musical idioms and their grammatical features: Western classical music of the Common Period (ca. 1600-1900) and South Indian classical music (also know as Carnatic music). The main hypothesis of this study is that you need to master the grammar of a musical idiom in order to properly understand its musical meanings
\uc9motions et sensibilit\ue9 aux valeurs : quatre conceptions philosophiques contemporaines
No full textAbstract: This article examines several ways of understanding emotions as evaluative reactions. There is a consensus in the affective sciences that paradigmatic emotions are made up of four components : appraisal processes, action tendencies, bodily changes, and phenomenal character. The article outlines the four main theories in the contemporary philosophy of emotions and shows that they tend to focus on one of the four components of emotions to explain their evaluative nature. The conclusion is that it is possible to account for emotions as evaluative reactions through the four components and that, for this reason, the theories presented are more complementary than is generally assumed
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