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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797919603321

Autore

Greenwood Jennifer <1946->

Titolo

Becoming human : the ontogenesis, metaphysics, and expression of human emotionality / / Jennifer Greenwood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA : , : The MIT Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-262-32983-2

0-262-32982-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Collana

Life and mind: philosophical issues in biology and psychology

Disciplina

152.4

Soggetti

Emotions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction and chapter outlines -- Theories of emotion -- Metaphysics and mind -- Mirror, mirror-- human emotional ontogenesis -- Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings -- From evolution to emotionese -- Loose talk, tight worlds -- Once more, with feeling -- References.

Sommario/riassunto

A novel, wide-ranging, and comprehensive account of how human emotionality develops, proposing a process in which "nature" and "nurture" are integrated.