A Sentimentalist Theory of the Mind by Michael Slote
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ISBN: 9780199371754
Oxford University Press, 06 May 2014
Hardback, 247 pages
Michael Slote argues that emotion is involved in all human thought and action on conceptual grounds, rather than merely being causally connected with other aspects of the mind. Such a sentimentalist view of the mind goes beyond that advocated by earlier thinkers, and the main arguments of this book are only partly anticipated in German Romanticism or in certain strands of Chinese philosophy. Slote proposes a new sentimentalist philosophy of mind that can solve important problems about the nature of belief and action that other approaches — including pragmatism — fail to address.