Andrea Scarantino, "Emotion Theory: The Routledge Comprehensive Guide" (Routledge, 2024)
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What is the overall purpose of the new two‑volume Emotion Theory guide?
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Hello and welcome to New Books and Philosophy, a podcast channel with the New Books Network. I'm Carrie Figdoor, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa. I am co-host of the channel along with Robert Talise, Sarah Tyson, and Malcolm Keating. Together we bring you conversations with philosophers about their new books in a wide range of areas of contemporary philosophical inquiry. Today's interview is with Andrea Scarantino, professor of philosophy at Georgia State University. His new book. A two-volume edited collection called Emotion Theory, The Rutledge Comprehensive Guide, is just out from Rutledge. This interview is an exception to our single author monographs rule, because the edited collection we'll talk about is an intellectual achievement that is worth making an exception for in over twelve years of podcasting.
Emotion Theory brings together sixty two chapters on emotion theory written by one hundred and one leading theorists from philosophy, psychology, biology, sociology, neuroscience, and other fields, all grappling with the question what is an emotion? Scarantino has compiled a synoptic and thematically organized collection that covers the history of emotion theory. The main contemporary theories of emotions, individual chapters on thirty-five distinct emotions, and more. The volumes bring together theorists from distinct disciplines that don't normally engage with with each other's work. And they provide readers with a one-stop shop for clearly written introductions to the current states of play in emotion research.
Let's turn to the interview. Hello, Andreas Garantino. Welcome to New Books in Philosophy. Hi Carrie.
Good to be here.
Um, it's as I've as I've said, um this is a an exception from our rule about, you know, only uh interviewing, you know, authors of monographs. Um but, you know, it's it's a pr it's an incredible achievement. I mean, I just I I think it will make a big impact. uh in uh the world of emotions and emotion theory um So so congratulations first of all on on a truly impressive, you know, two volume work. Um even if you are the editor, that's still quite an achievement. Thank you. Thank you very much. When we before we get into that, let's uh tell us a bit, I mean, you have yourself written on on emotions, among other things. Uh can you can you say a bit about how you, you know, became a philosopher, how you got into the field and then um how this book came about?
Absolutely. So I um I have to say that my my interest in philosophy uh predates the time I I actually knew what philosophy is. Um when I reached uh age around thirteen, fourteen, I developed uh a pretty severe case of uh uh one what one may describe as early onset skepticism.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the overall purpose of the new two‑volume Emotion Theory guide?
0:00–23:41
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How did Andrea Scarantino become a philosopher and what led him to study emotions?
23:41–54:47
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Why did Scarantino decide to create a massive edited collection instead of a single monograph?
54:47–1:06:03
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What are the three historical parts of Volume I and how do they structure the history of emotion theory?
1:06:03–1:06:05
Speakers
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