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Valence, Bodily (dis-)Pleasure and Emotion
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Peer-reviewed
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Author
TeroniFabrice,
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Contribution to book (peer-reviewed)
Book
Philosophy of Suffering
Editor
, Corns Jennifer; , Bain David; , Brady Michael
Publisher
Routledge, New York
Page(s)
103 - 122
ISBN
0815361785
Title of proceedings
Philosophy of Suffering
Open Access
URL
https://www.routledge.com/Philosophy-of-Suffering-Metaphysics-Value-and-Normativity-1st-Edition/Bain-Brady-Corns/p/book/9780815361787
Type of Open Access
Green OA Embargo (Freely available via Repository after an embargo)
Abstract
Bodily (dis)pleasures and emotions share the striking property of being valenced, i.e. they are positive or negative. What is valence? How do bodily (dis)pleasures and emotions relate to one another? This chapter assesses the prospects of two popular theses regarding the relation between bodily (dis)pleasures and emotions in light of what we can reasonably think about valence. According to the first thesis, the valence of bodily (dis)pleasures is explanatory prior vis-à-vis the valence of emotions. According to the second, emotions contain bodily (dis)pleasures. I argue that bodily (dis)pleasures are intentional states whose valence is to be understood in terms of evaluative experience, and bring to light the similarities and dissimilarities between their intentional structure and that of emotions. On this backdrop, I offer reasons to conclude that we should adopt neither of the two theses.
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