CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Jakstas, Marius |
|---|---|
| Title | On Emotion Blindness: Understanding Emotions via Wittgenstein's Account of Aspect-Perception |
| Summary | The thesis explains and extends Robert C. Roberts’s proposal to understand emotions as ways of seeing, or, in his terminology, as concern-based construals. Roberts’s account of emotions is indebted to Wittgenstein’s remarks on aspect-perception, which are discussed in detail in Chapter I, along with Wittgenstein’s related notion of forms of life. Chapter I also explains how both of these notions were used to facilitate the understanding of emotions by Wittgenstein himself as well as his followers and commentators. Chapter II discusses Roberts’s own account of emotions, where the phenomenon of aspect-perception is used in a way that is different from those briefly outlined in Chapter I, in that it is meant to explain not third-person ascriptions of emotions, but rather how emotions are formed from the first-person perspective. It also highlights some key similarities between Roberts’s notion of construals and aspect-perception as discussed by Wittgenstein, ultimately arguing that the formation of emotions is part of the phenomena of aspect-perception. Chapter III discusses aspect-blindness in the case of emotions. |
| Supervisor | Ben-Yami, Hanoch |
| Department | Philosophy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/jakstas_marius.pdf |
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