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Emotions as mind organs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2012

Beatrice de Gelder  and
Mathieu Vandenbulcke
Beatrice de Gelder
Affiliation:
Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab, Tilburg University, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands. B.deGelder@uvt.nlwww.beatricedegelder.com
Mathieu Vandenbulcke
Affiliation:
Department of Neuroscience, Division of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. mathieu.vandenbulcke@uzleuven.be
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Abstract

In matters of the mind, the opposition between what is mind-made or inside and natural or outside the mind is bound to misfire. Lindquist et al. build their analysis on a strong contrast between naturalism, which they reject, and psychologism, which they endorse. We challenge this opposition and indicate how adopting psychologism to combat a naturalistic view of emotional mind/brain areas is self-defeating. We briefly develop the alternative view of emotions as mental organs.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , June 2012 , pp. 147 - 148
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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