In earlier work I have claimed that emotion and some emotions are not natural kinds. Here I clarify what I mean by natural kind, suggest a new and more accurate term and discuss the objection that emotion and emotions are not descriptive categories at all, but fundamentally normative categories
[I argue that a precise definition of emotions is neither necessary nor possible prior to empirical ...
The problem of variability concerns the fact that empirical data does not support the existence of a...
The paper considers whether psychiatric kinds can be natural kinds and concludes that they can. This...
In earlier work I have claimed that emotion and some emotions are not natural kinds. Here I clarify ...
It has been argued recently that some basic emotions should be considered natural kinds. This is dif...
A central question for philosophical psychology is which mental faculties form natural kinds. There ...
A central question for philosophical psychology is which mental faculties form natural kinds. There ...
rleans ge to lly-d of a uence ral k affect at is a iety o fore, under this assumption emotions such ...
I argue for the importance of clarifying the distinction between metaphysical, semantic, and meta-se...
In the scientific study of the emotions the goal is to find natural kinds. That is, to find categori...
It is commonly claimed that the folk category of emotion does not constitute a natural kind, due to ...
The question I ask in this thesis is "What is the nature of emotions?" I then argue against essenti...
According to psychological constructivism, emotions result from projecting folk emotion concepts ont...
Both lay people and scientists organize the world around them by categorizing particular things (obj...
[I argue that a precise definition of emotions is neither necessary nor possible prior to empirical ...
The problem of variability concerns the fact that empirical data does not support the existence of a...
The paper considers whether psychiatric kinds can be natural kinds and concludes that they can. This...
In earlier work I have claimed that emotion and some emotions are not natural kinds. Here I clarify ...
It has been argued recently that some basic emotions should be considered natural kinds. This is dif...
A central question for philosophical psychology is which mental faculties form natural kinds. There ...
A central question for philosophical psychology is which mental faculties form natural kinds. There ...
rleans ge to lly-d of a uence ral k affect at is a iety o fore, under this assumption emotions such ...
I argue for the importance of clarifying the distinction between metaphysical, semantic, and meta-se...
In the scientific study of the emotions the goal is to find natural kinds. That is, to find categori...
It is commonly claimed that the folk category of emotion does not constitute a natural kind, due to ...
The question I ask in this thesis is "What is the nature of emotions?" I then argue against essenti...
According to psychological constructivism, emotions result from projecting folk emotion concepts ont...
Both lay people and scientists organize the world around them by categorizing particular things (obj...
[I argue that a precise definition of emotions is neither necessary nor possible prior to empirical ...
The problem of variability concerns the fact that empirical data does not support the existence of a...
The paper considers whether psychiatric kinds can be natural kinds and concludes that they can. This...