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Emotions as Natural and Normative Kinds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Paul E. Griffiths
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Abstract

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.

Type
Biological Kinds and Human Kinds
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 71 , Issue 5: Proceedings of the 2002 Biennial Meeting of The Philosophy of Science Association. Part II: Symposia Papers , December 2004 , pp. 901 - 911
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Copyright © 2004 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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