Emotional Self-Knowledge: How Affective Skills Reveal Our Values, Goals, Cares, and Concerns

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Matt Stichter (Washington State University) Ellen Fridland (King's College London)

Emotional Self-Knowledge

How Affective Skills Reveal Our Values, Goals, Cares, and Concerns

Matt Stichter (Washington State University), Ellen Fridland (King's College London)

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English

Cambridge University Press
03 July 2025

Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; Psychology: emotions; Popular psychology

Series: Elements in Epistemology

Knowledge of our emotional and bodily states helps us to further know our goals, values, interests, cares, and concerns. The authors first lay out a puzzle as to why bodily and emotional self-knowledge is strongly associated with good mental health and well-being. They solve this puzzle by mapping out connections between bodily states, emotional states, and our goals with an account of emotions as embodied appraisals. Emotions being embodied implies that self-knowledge of our bodily states aids in acquiring knowledge of our emotional states.

Emotions as appraisals means that situations are appraised relative to our goals, such that self-knowledge of emotional states aids in acquiring knowledge of our goals, which are not always transparent to us. While emotional self-knowledge can be difficult to acquire, through skilled practice we can improve awareness and knowledge of our emotional and bodily states.

By: Matt Stichter (Washington State University), Ellen Fridland (King's College London)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 124g
ISBN: 9781009307840
ISBN 10: 1009307843
Series: Elements in Epistemology
Pages: 76
Publication Date: 03 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction; 2. The puzzle of 'Feeling Well'; 3. Solving the puzzle; 4. Emotions and Self-Knowledge; 5. Self-Knowledge can be difficult to acquire; 6. Conclusion; References.