Dimensions of Emotional Fit.
Emotions are open to various kinds of normative assessment. For example, we can assess emotions for their prudential or moral value. Recently, philosophers have increasingly attended to a distinct form of normative assessment of emotions—fittingness assessment. An emotion is fitting when it is merit...
| Published in: | Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 75; no. 1; pp. 125 - 147 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jan2025
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