Abduction, perception, emotion, feeling: Body maps and pattern recognition.

In this paper, we compare some views on emotion of William James, C. S. Peirce, and Antonio Damasio, in relation to our epistemological hypothesis about what it is to I feel an emotion i : that it is in effect an abductive process of recognizing patterns in one's bodily states, and thereby updating...

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Publicado en:Philosophical Perspectives Vol. 35; no. 1; pp. 404 - 419
Autores principales: Trajkovski, Miroslava, Williamson, Timothy
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Dec2021
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Sumario:In this paper, we compare some views on emotion of William James, C. S. Peirce, and Antonio Damasio, in relation to our epistemological hypothesis about what it is to I feel an emotion i : that it is in effect an abductive process of recognizing patterns in one's bodily states, and thereby updating the maps in one's brain of one's body and its states. We will explain how Damasio's modern neurological view is structurally closer to Peirce's view than to James', even though Damasio does not refer to Peirce. 16 Peirce, Charles S. 1931 -35: The Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, vols.