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Not a bridge but an organismic (general and causal) neuropsychology should make a difference in emotion theory
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 August 2005
Abstract:
Does Lewis imply that brain processes might be used to replace an as-yet-unavailable substantive organismic neuropsychology? To counteract this reductionist idea I argue for distinguishing between affects and emotions, and discuss a real-life example of implicit emotional appraisal. Failure to use organismic units of processing such as schemes or schemas makes the bridging attempt fall under a reductionist “mereological fallacy.”
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