Passionate Engines: What Emotions Reveal about the Mind and Artificial Intelligence

Craig DeLancey9780195142716, 0-19-514271-3

In this unique contribution to philosophical debate, Craig DeLancey shows that our best understanding of emotion provides essential insight on key issues in philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence. DeLancey offers us a bold new approach to the study of the mind based on the latest scientific research, and provides an accessible overview of the science of emotion and explanation of the technical issues that arise, with minimal jargon.

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Table of contents :
Contents……Page 18
1 Introduction: The Affect Program Theory of Emotions……Page 22
2 The Case Against Cognitivism……Page 50
3 Interpretationism……Page 68
4 Social Constructionism and the Contribution of Culture to Emotion……Page 88
5 The Intentionality of the Basic Emotions……Page 106
6 Emoting for Fictions……Page 122
7 The Rationality of the Basic Emotions……Page 138
8 Internalism and the Basic Emotions……Page 154
9 Four Puzzles for Consciousness……Page 174
10 A Systems-Based Teleofunctional Theory of Consciousness……Page 188
11 The Computational Theory of Mind……Page 206
12 Affective Engineering……Page 222
13 Conclusion: Passionate Engines……Page 234
Notes……Page 244
Bibliography……Page 254
B……Page 268
D……Page 269
H……Page 270
M……Page 271
R……Page 272
Z……Page 273