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Emotions as Original Existences: A Theory of Emotion, Motivation and the Self (2020)
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Whiting, D. (2020). Emotions as Original Existences: A Theory of Emotion, Motivation and the Self. Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54682-3

This book defends the much-disputed view that emotions are what Hume referred to as 'original existences': feeling states that have no intentional or representational properties of their own. In doing so, the book serves as a valuable counterbalance... Read More about Emotions as Original Existences: A Theory of Emotion, Motivation and the Self.