FEELING AND THOUGHT. A REPLY

Lumps of Thought: A Reply

In a handout entitled "Conditionals in Possible Worlds: Times Three" for a talk at NASSLI on June 29, 2002, Stanley Peters reported results that are based on a misrepresentation of definitions from my 1989 paper "An Investigation of the Lumps of Thought". The results reported in the handout are not derivable from the original definitions. A crucial relativization to a parameter was dropped. The...

In the Mood for Thought: Feeling and Thinking in Philosophy

Feeling, Thought and Orientation: William James and the Idealist Anti-cartesian Tradition

Twentieth-century philosophical and psychological thought about emotion effectively started with the work of William James. While for much of the second half of that century, James’s work had definitely fallen out of favour, recently there have been definite signs of a revival.1 Such a positive re-evaluation is, I believe, welldeserved, as James’s approach to emotion has many under-appreciated ...

When the Mind Races: Effects of Thought Speed on Feeling and Action

Thought speed can be altered via controlled exposure to stimuli such as temporally paced text. Experiments show that thinking quickly induces positive mood and that the effect cannot be attributed to alterations of thought content or fluency. The effect is obtained across varied manipulations, including ones that alter the pace of thought involved in reading, problem solving, and visual compreh...

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