Emotion, Evolution and Rationality

PART I - NEUROSCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS 1. William James and the modern neurobiology of emotion 2. Homologizing human emotions PART II - EMOTION, BELIEF AND APPRAISAL 3. Emotional behaviour and the scope of belief-desire explanation 4. Which emotions are basic? 5. Towards a 'Machiavellian' theory of emotional appraisal 6. Unpicking reasonable emotions PART III - EVOLUTION AND THE RATIONALITY OF EMOTION 7. Evolution, culture and the irrationality of the emotions 8. The role of emotions in ecological and practical rationality 9. The search hypothesis of emotion 10. Adaptive illusions: optimism, control and human rationality 11. Emotion versus reason as a genetic conflict PART IV - PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES 12. Conscience and conflict: Darwin, Freud and the origins of human aggression 13. Emotion, reason and virtue