LATEST DISCOUNTS & SALES: PROMOTIONS
Carolyn Price is a lecturer at the Open University. She joined thedepartment in February 2000, having spent eight years as a Lecturerand Tutor at St Hugh?s College, Oxford. Her research interests liein the Philosophy of Mind: she is particularly interested inquestions about meaning, rationality and emotion, and theconnections between them.
In this short book Carolyn Price elegantly condenses a sophisticated understanding of the philosophy of emotion into eight very readable chapters. While offering a novel explanation and defence of a functionalist, teleosemantic position, the book also situates this position clearly and fairly in wider philosophical debates about emotion. As such, Price's measured assessments of alternative positions also offer an excellent introduction to readers who are new to this important and emerging topic. The book will be stimulating reading for students and researchers alike. Christopher Bennett, University of Sheffield This is a splendid book: clearly written, empirically informed, philosophically astute, and a pleasure to read. It contains a wealth of good arguments, and makes interesting and original points on all of the central issues in the philosophy of emotion. Highly recommended. Michael Brady, University of Glasgow
