PHIL 242 Lecture Notes - Alison Jaggar, Feminist Theory, Intentionality
17 Mar 2014
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Phil 242 - love and knowledge: emotion in feminist epistemology . Physiological reactions: usually involuntary and unintentional judgments, beliefs, knowledge: intentional, largely voluntary. Think of intentionality as aboutness being directed toward something in the world. Don"t confuse with being voluntary, i. e. under our control. The dumb view : emotions as unintentional and physiological. 1- the mental states related to knowledge are intentional (beliefs, judgments, etc. 3- the only way emotions can interact with beliefs, judgments, etc. is by interfering with them or disrupting them. (jaggar connects this with positivism, an approach that only treats things as real if they can be proven with logical demonstrations or scientific observation. ) The dumb view is implied by some of the ways we talk about emotion. Notice linguistic connection between the passions and passive and the implications of the word feelings. Both imply that that emotions are things that happen to us, rather than things we do or use.
