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  1. The Rationality of Emotion.Ronald De Sousa - 1987 - MIT Press.
    In this urbane and witty book, Ronald de Sousa disputes the widespread notion that reason and emotion are natural antagonists.
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  2. The Rationality of Emotion.Ronald de Sousa, Jing-Song Ma & Vincent Shen - 1987 - Philosophy and Culture 32 (10):35-66.
    How should we understand the emotional rationality? This first part will explore two models of cognition and analogy strategies, test their intuition about the emotional desire. I distinguish between subjective and objective desire, then presents with a feeling from the "paradigm of drama" export semantics, here our emotional repertoire is acquired all the learned, and our emotions in the form of an object is fixed. It is pretty well in line with the general principles of rationality, especially the lowest reasonable (...)
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  3. Emotion.Ronald de Sousa - 2007 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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    Emotional Truth.Ronald de Sousa - 2011 - Oxford University Press USA.
    The word "truth" retains, in common use, traces of origins that link it to trust, truth, and truce, connoting ideas of fidelity, loyalty, and authenticity. The word has become, in contemporary philosophy, encased in a web of technicalities, but we know that a true image is a faithful portrait; a true friend a loyal one. In a novel or a poem, too, we have a feel for what is emotionally true, though we are not concerned with the actuality of events (...)
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    (1 other version)The Structure of Emotions.Robert M. Gordon & Ronald De Sousa - 1989 - Journal of Philosophy 86 (9):493-504.
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    The Good and the True.Ronald B. De Sousa - 1974 - Mind 83:534.
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    Love: A Very Short Introduction.Ronald De Sousa - 2015 - Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
    Do we love someone for their virtue, their beauty, or their moral or other qualities? Are love's characteristic desires altruistic or selfish? Are there duties of love? What do the sciences tell us about love? In this Very Short Introduction, Ronald de Sousa explores the different kinds of love, from affections to romantic love.
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    Who Needs Values When We Have Valuing? Comments on Jean Moritz Müller, The World-Directedness of Emotional Feeling.Ronald de Sousa - 2022 - Emotion Review 14 (4):257-261.
    Emotion Review, Volume 14, Issue 4, Page 257-261, October 2022. Müller argues that the perceptual or “Axiological Receptivity” model of emotions is incoherent, because it requires an emotion to apprehend and respond to its formal object at the same time. He defends a contrasting view of emotions as “Position-Takings" towards “formal objects”, aspects of an emotion's target pertinent to the subject's concerns. I first cast doubt on the cogency of Müller's attack on AR as begging questions about the temporal characteristics (...)
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    How to Give a Piece of Your Mind.Ronald B. de Sousa - 1971 - Review of Metaphysics 25 (1):52-79.
    Nothing seems to follow strictly from 'X believes that p'. But if we reinterpret it to mean: 'X can consistently be described as consistently believing p'--which roughly renders, I think, Hintikka's notion of "defensibility"--we can get on with the subject, freed from the inhibitions of descriptive adequacy. But defensibility is neither necessary nor sufficient for truth: it tells us little, therefore, about the concept of belief on which it is based. It cannot, in particular, specify necessary conditions for the consistent (...)
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  10. Truth, Authenticity, and Rationality.Ronald De Sousa - 2007 - Dialectica 61 (3):323-345.
    Emotions are Janus‐faced. They tell us something about the world, and they tell us something about ourselves. This suggests that we might speak of a truth, or perhaps two kinds of truths of emotions, one of which is about self and the other about conditions in the world. On some views, the latter comes by means of the former. Insofar as emotions manifest our inner life, however, we are more inclined to speak of authenticity rather than truth. What is the (...)
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  11. Moral emotions.Ronald de Sousa - 2001 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 4 (2):109-126.
    Emotions can be the subject of moral judgments; they can also constitute the basis for moral judgments. The apparent circularity which arises if we accept both of these claims is the central topic of this paper: how can emotions be both judge and party in the moral court? The answer I offer regards all emotions as potentially relevant to ethics, rather than singling out a privileged set of moral emotions. It relies on taking a moderate position both on the question (...)
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  12. Emotions: What I know, what I'd like to think I know, and what I'd like to think.Ronald de Sousa - 2004 - In Robert C. Solomon (ed.), Thinking About Feeling: Contemporary Philosophers on Emotions. New York: Oxford University Press USA.
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    The Natural Shiftiness of Natural Kinds.Ronald de Sousa - 1984 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 14 (4):561-580.
    The Philosophical search for Natural Kinds is motivated by the hope of finding ontological categories that are independent of our interests. Other requirements, of varying importance, are commonly made of kinds that claim to be natural. But no such categories are to be found. Virtually any kind can be termed ‘natural’ relative to some set of interests and epistemic priorities. Science determines those priorities at any particular stage of its progress, and what kinds are most ‘natural’ in that sense is (...)
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  14. Self-deceptive emotions.Ronald B. De Sousa - 1978 - Journal of Philosophy 75 (11):684-697.
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    Emotions, Education and Time.Ronald de Sousa - 1990 - Metaphilosophy 21 (4):434-446.
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    What Philosophy Contributes to Emotion Science.Ronald De Sousa - 2022 - Philosophies 7 (4):87.
    Contemporary philosophers have paid increasing attention to the empirical research on emotions that has blossomed in many areas of the social sciences. In this paper, I first sketch the common roots of science and philosophy in Ancient Greek thought. I illustrate the way that specific empirical sciences can be regarded as branching out from a central trunk of philosophical speculation. On the basis of seven informal characterizations of what is distinctive about philosophical thinking, I then draw attention to the fact (...)
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    Why think?: evolution and the rational mind.Ronald De Sousa - 2007 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Introduction -- Function and destiny -- What's the good of thinking? -- Rationality, individual and collective -- Irrationality.
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    Emotion and self-deception.Ronald De Sousa - 1988 - In Amelie Oksenberg Rorty & Brian P. McLaughlin (eds.), Perspectives on Self-Deception. University of California Press.
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  19. Rational homunculi.Ronald De Sousa - 1976 - In Amélie Rorty (ed.), The Identities of Persons. University of California Press.
     
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    Is Contempt Redeemable?Ronald de Sousa - 2019 - Journal of Philosophy of Emotion 1 (1):23-43.
    In this essay, I will focus on the two main objections that have been adduced against the moral acceptability of contempt: the fact that it embraces a whole person and not merely some deed or aspect of a person’s character, and the way that when addressed to a person in this way, it amounts to a denial of the very personhood of its target.
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    Biological Individuality.Ronald de Sousa - 2005 - Croatian Journal of Philosophy 5 (2):195-218.
    The question What is an individual? goes back beyond Aristotle’s discussion of substance to the Ionians’ preoccupation with the paradox of change -- the fact that if anything changes it must stay the same. Mere reflection on this fact and the common-sense notion of a countable thing yields a concept of a “minimal individual”, which is particular (a logical matter) specific (a taxonomic matter), and unique (an evaluative empirical matter). Individuals occupy space, and therefore might be dislodged. Even minimal individuals, (...)
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    The mind's Bermuda Triangle: philosophy of emotions and empirical science.Ronald de Sousa - 2009 - In Peter Goldie (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Emotion. New York: Oxford University Press.
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    Evolution et rationalité.Ronald De Sousa - 2004 - Paris: Presses universitaires de France.
    À quoi bon la pensée? Pour de nombreux chercheurs, inspirés par les théories évolutionnistes, la pensée réfléchie est utile à notre espèce. Elle lui confère des avantages importants et contribue à son succès reproductif. Pourtant ses avantages ne sont pas si évidents. La pensée ne figure ni dans les mécanismes de l'évolution qui ont façonné la vie, ni parmi les procédés dont se servent la plupart des organismes pour s'y maintenir. Dans Évolution et rationalité, Ronald de Sousa montre que, pour (...)
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    Comment: Language and Dimensionality in Appraisal Theory.Ronald de Sousa - 2013 - Emotion Review 5 (2):171-175.
    The proliferation of dimensions of appraisal is both welcome and worrying. The preoccupation with sorting out causes may be somewhat otiose. And the ubiquity of emotions in levels of processing raises intriguing problems about the role of language in identifying and triggering emotions and appraisals.
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  25. Twelve varieties of subjectivity.Ronald B. de Sousa - 2002 - In M. Larrazabal & P. Miranda (eds.), Twelve Varieties of Subjectivity: Dividing in Hopes of Conquest. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
     
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    Kinds of kinds: Individuality and biological species.Ronald de Sousa - 1989 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 3 (2):119 – 135.
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    (1 other version)Against Emotional Modularity.Ronald De Sousa - 2006 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 36 (sup1):29-50.
    How many emotions are there? Should we accept as overwhelming the evidence in favour of regarding emotions as emanating from a relatively small number of modules evolved efficiently to serve us in common life situations? Or can emotions, like colour, be organized in a space of two, three, or more dimensions defining a vast number of discriminable emotions, arranged on a continuum, on the model of the colour cone?There is some evidence that certain emotions are specialized to facilitate certain response (...)
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    I. Self‐deception.Ronald B. de Sousa - 1970 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 13 (1-4):308-321.
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    Les émotions contemplatives et l’objectivité des valeurs.Ronald de Sousa - 2018 - Philosophiques 45 (2):499-505.
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  30. Restoring emotion's bad rep: the moral randomness of norms.Ronald De Sousa - 2006 - European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 2 (1):29-47.
    Despite the fact that common sense taxes emotions with irrationality, philosophers have, by and large, celebrated their functionality. They are credited with motivating, steadying, shaping or harmonizing our dispositions to act, and with policing norms of social behaviour. It's time to restore emotion's bad rep. To this end, I shall argue that we should expect that some of the “norms” enforced by emotions will be unevenly distributed among the members of our species, and may be dysfunctional at the individual, social, (...)
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    Bashing the Enlightenment: A Discussion of Charles Taylor's Sources of the Self.Ronald de Sousa - 1994 - Dialogue 33 (1):109.
    This is a Big Book from one of Canada's preeminent philosophers. It aims at nothing less than to define what characterizes modernity, and then to tell us what is wrong with it. Like many a Big Book, it is predictably full of interesting things, and equally predictably disappointing, not to say feeble, in some of the central theses for which it argues. But then what more, in philosophy, can we really expect? It's what we tell our students: you don't have (...)
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    Is art an adaptation? Prospects for an evolutionary perspective on beauty.Ronald De Sousa - 2004 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 62 (2):109–118.
  33. Love Undigitized.Ronald de Sousa - 1997 - In Roger E. Lamb (ed.), Love analyzed. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press.
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    Paradoxical Emotion: On sui generis Emotional Irrationality.Ronald de Sousa - 2003 - In Sarah Stroud & Christine Tappolet (eds.), Weakness of will and practical irrationality. New York: Oxford University Press.
    Weakness of will violates practical rationality; but may also be viewed as an epistemic failing. Conflicts between strategic and epistemic rationality suggest that we need a superordinate standard to arbitrate between them. Contends that such a standard is to be found at the axiological level, apprehended by emotions. Axiological rationality is sui generis, reducible to neither the strategic nor the epistemic. But, emotions are themselves capable of raising paradoxes and antinomies, particularly when the principles they embody involve temporality. They constitute (...)
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    (1 other version)Seizing the Hedgehog by the Tail: Taylor on the Self and Agency.Ronald de Sousa - 1988 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 18 (3):421-432.
    For those of us who are sympathetic to the research program of cognitive science, it is especially useful to face the deepest and sharpest critic of that program. Charles Taylor, who defines himself as a ‘hedgehog’ whose ‘single rather tightly related agenda’ fits into a very ancient and rather elusive debate between naturalism and anti-naturalism, may well be that critic. My ambition in this paper is to distill Taylor’s central objection to the cognitive science approach to agency and the self (...)
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    Desire and Serendipity.Ronald de Sousa - 1998 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 22:120-134.
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  37. Desire and time.Ronald B. De Sousa - 1986 - In Joel Marks (ed.), The Ways of Desire: New Essays in Philosophical Psychology on the Concept of Wanting. Precedent.
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    Fringe consciousness and the multifariousness of emotions.Ronald B. de Sousa - 2002 - PSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research On Consciousness 8.
    Mangan draws his inspiration from James's account of fringe consciousness, but differs from James in focusing on something non-sensory, necessarily fuzzy, though not necessarily fleeting. A long tradition in philosophy has deemed non-sensory elements of consciousness to be indispensable to thought. But those, chiefly conceptual, forms of non-sensory fringe are not Mangan's focus. What then is Mangan talking about? This commentary envisages a number of possible answers, and tentatively concludes that fringe consciousness is essentially emotional. Emotional consciousness involves proprioception, however, (...)
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    (1 other version)Perversion and Death.Ronald de Sousa - 2003 - The Monist 86 (1):90-114.
    Philosophers like to warn against fools’ paradises: not places where fools can safely cavort, but rather conditions in which fools mistakenly think themselves happy. The warning presupposes that real and merely apparent happiness can be told apart. Of course that claim is not altogether disinterested, since philosophers have a professional investment in the distinction. Thus they have endorsed this or that attitude to death, holding up promises of ultimate comfort or threats of excruciating regret, to be dispensed at the last (...)
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    Paradoxical emotions.Ronald de Sousa - 2003 - In Sarah Stroud & Christine Tappolet (eds.), Weakness of will and practical irrationality. New York: Oxford University Press.
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    The tree of English bears bitter fruit.Ronald Bon de Sousa - 1966 - Journal of Philosophy 63 (2):37-46.
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  42. Plato’s Philebus.Ronald de Sousa - 2013 - Topoi 32 (1):125-128.
  43. 4.Ronald de Sousa - 2010 - In Peter Goldie (ed.), The Mind’s Bermuda Triangle: Philosophy of Emotions and Empirical Science. Oxford University Press. pp. 95--117.
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  44. (1 other version)Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, Love Online: Emotions on the Internet Reviewed by.Ronald de Sousa - 2004 - Philosophy in Review 24 (5):311-313.
     
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    Alan Gewirth, self‐fulfillment.Ronald de Sousa - 2000 - Ethics 110 (4):833-834.
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    A Third Front in Philosophy.Ronald de Sousa - 2014 - Common Knowledge 20 (2):223-234.
    In a colloquium on “lyric philosophy,” this contribution records the efforts of an analytic philosopher to come to grips with questions that Jan Zwicky, who is both a fine poet and a subtle philosopher, has raised about anglophone analytic philosophy. The essay situates Zwicky between the analytic and Continental traditions in philosophy: like the best analytic philosophers, it is argued, she is enamored of clarity, but, like what is best in the Continental tradition, she demands of philosophy a deeper sense (...)
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  47. (1 other version)Brian Easlea, Science and Sexual Oppression Reviewed by.Ronald de Sousa - 1982 - Philosophy in Review 2 (5):214-217.
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    (1 other version)Critical notice.Ronald B. de Sousa - 1979 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 9 (2):335-350.
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  49. Comments on Barbara S. Stengel: Thinking about Thinking: Wilfred Sellars' Theory on Induction.Ronald de Sousa - 1987 - Philosophy of Education: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society 43:259-262.
     
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  50. Comment on Research Outcome of Philosophy of Emotions in Recent Ten Years.Ronald de Sousa, Jing-Song Ma & Vincent Shen - 2005 - Philosophy and Culture 32 (10):147-156.
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