From Davidson to the Theory of Emotions, Back and Forth
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radical interpretation, emotions, emotional expression, Davidson, Donald
Abstract
This paper explores three different conceptions of emotions we find in the work of Donald Davidson, discussing them with the three main philosophical views on emotions: the cognitivistic, the naturalistic and the sui generis. The text considers pride in relation to the cognitivistic view, surprise in relation to the naturalistic view, and smile in relation to the sui generis view. The main thesis of the paper is that both Davidson and the theory of emotions enrich their respective accounts when we oscillate between the two. The theory of emotions is strengthened when we refine it with the davidsonian concepts of singular causation, and individuative and non-individuative attitudes. The davidsonian theory of radical interpretation may be stronger if enhanced by the concept of emotional expression.
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Davidson, Donald (1970). “Events as Particulars”. En: Essays on Actions and Events (pp. 181-188). Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Davidson, Donald (1973). “Radical Interpretation”. En: Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation (pp. 125-140). Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Davidson, Donald (1975). “Thought and Talk”. En: Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation (pp. 155-170). Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Davidson, D. (1976) “Hume’s Cognitive Theory of Pride”. En: Essays on Actions and Events (pp. 277-290). Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Davidson, Donald (1980). “A Unified Theory of Thought, Meaning and Action”. En: Problems of Rationality (pp. 151-166). Oxford: Oxford Uni-versity Press.
Davidson, Donald (1982). “Rational Animals”. En: Subjective, Intersubjec-tive, Objective (pp. 95-105). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Davidson, Donald (1991). “The Structure and Content of Truth”. En: Journal of Philosophy. Vol. 87, No. 6, pp. 279-328.
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Lepore, Ernie y Ludwig Keltner (2004). Donald Davidson. Meaning, Truth, Language and Reality. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Matsumoto, David, Dacher Keltner, Michelle N. Shiota, Maureen O’Sullivan y Mark Frank (2011). “Facial Expression of Emotions”. En: Mi-chael Lewis, Jeannette M. Haviland-Jones y Lisa Feldman Barret (eds.). Handbook of Emotions (pp. 211-234). Londres: The Guilford Press.
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Nussbaum, Martha (2001). Upheavals of Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Pedace, Karina (2012). “La normatividad de lo mental y el rol de la se-gunda persona. Tras las huellas de Donald Davidson”. En: Areté. Revista de Filosofía. Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 109-152.
Pérez, Miguel (2008). “First, Second and Third Person in the Emergence of Tought”. En: Jesús Padilla (ed.). Phenomenology as Grammar. Fráncfort: Ontos Verlag.
Pérez, Miguel (2009). La aparición del pensamiento. Una enmienda emotiva a la tesis de Donald Davidson. Granada: Publicaciones de la Universidad de Granada.
Pérez, Miguel (2011). “Un primate de tercera y una persona de segunda. El valor del rostro, la mirada y la piel para comprender a un extraño”. En: Universitas Philosophica, Vol. 28, No. 57, pp. 265-293.
Quintanilla, Pablo (2004). “Comprender al otro es crear un espacio com-partido. Caridad, Empatía y triangulación”. En: Ideas y Valores. No. 125, pp. 117-133.
Solomon, Robert (1973). “Emotions and Choice”. En: Not Passion’s Slaves. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Solomon, Robert (2007). True to Our Feelings. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Thalberg, Irving (1977). Perception, Emotion and Action. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Tooby, John y Leda Cosmides (2000). “The Evolutionary Psychology of Emotions and Their Relationship to Internal Regulatory Variables”. En: Michael Lewis, Jeannette M. Haviland-Jones y Lisa Feldman Barret (eds.). Handbook of Emotions (pp. 114-137). Londres: The Guilford Press.
Vendrell, Íngrid (2009). “Teorías analíticas de las emociones: el debate actual y sus precedentes históricos”. En: Contrastes. Revista internacional de filosofía, Vol. 14, No. 1-2, pp. 217-240.
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Pérez Jiménez, M. Ángel. (2015). From Davidson to the Theory of Emotions, Back and Forth. Co-Herencia, 12(23), 141–170. https://doi.org/10.17230/co-herencia.12.23.6
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Miguel Ángel Pérez Jiménez, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá-Colombia.
Doctor en filosofía por la Universidad de Granada-España. Profesor asociado del Departamento de Filosofía de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá-Colombia.
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