The boundaries of affectivity (and a coda on extended consciousness)
In this contribution I will offer a rough guide through “situated affectivity”,a small galaxy of theories, ideas, intuitions which are recently growing atthe boundaries between philosophy of emotion, philosophy of mind, philo-sophy of cognitive science. In the last years, we are witnessing a real “a...
| Published in: | Perspectiva Filosófica |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)
2024-03-01
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| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufpe.br/revistas/index.php/perspectivafilosofica/article/view/256751 |
| Summary: | In this contribution I will offer a rough guide through “situated affectivity”,a small galaxy of theories, ideas, intuitions which are recently growing atthe boundaries between philosophy of emotion, philosophy of mind, philo-sophy of cognitive science. In the last years, we are witnessing a real “affec-tive turn” in the domain of analytic philosophy of mind and cognitive scien-ce, and situated affectivity is an excellent example of what is going on in thefield. In the first part, I will present the main versions of situated affectivity,distinguishing between the ideas of situated or scaffolded emotions (Griffi-ths, Scarantino 2009; Colombetti, Krueger 2015) and properly extendedemotions (Carter et al. 2016; Colombetti, Roberts 2015), and showing theirlink to the corresponding idea of the mind: scaffolded, extended or otherwi-se. In the second part, I will further explore the connection between situatedaffectivity and the domain of extended mind: I will argue that, even if situa-ted affectivity could be in principle evaluated independently from any parti-cular theory about the mind, dealing with situated affectivity is, beside itsindependent interest, also a good way to tackle an unsettled problem in theliterature on extended mind, namely extended consciousness. |
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| ISSN: | 0104-6454 2357-9986 |