Background
Greenspan, Patricia Susan was born on September 30, 1944 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Herbert Schuhe and Harriet Goldberg Greenspan.
(What is an emotion, and how is it connected with reasons ...)
What is an emotion, and how is it connected with reasons and actions? Greenspan presents a novel anti-Cartesian, anti-'judgementalist' account of the emotions. This book should be of interest to advanced students of philosophy and psychology.
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(P.S. Greenspan uses the treatment of moral dilemmas as th...)
P.S. Greenspan uses the treatment of moral dilemmas as the basis for an alternative view of the structure of ethics and its relation to human psychology. Greenspan argues that dilemmas may be regarded as possible consequences of a set of social rules designed to be simple enough to be teachable. Where these rules prohibit action either way, the problematic motivational force of dilemmas can be explained by reference to the role of emotion as a substitute for action. Guilt is seen as a natural but contested candidate for the sort of emotional sanction for wrongdoing that might supply motivational force in dilemmas. It functions as a way of preserving virtue against moral luck. Greenspan defends guilt in the face of dilemmas on the basis of a "nonjudgmentalist" account of emotions that accepts guilt as appropriate even in some cases of unavoidable wrongdoing. In its treatment of the role of emotion in ethics the argument of the book outlines a new way of packing motivational force into moral meaning that allows for a socially based version of moral realism. Since, on the proposed account, emotions underpin the teaching of moral language, human emotional capacities impose constraints on the nature of a viable moral code and thus affect the content of morality.
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researcher Philosophy educator
Greenspan, Patricia Susan was born on September 30, 1944 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Herbert Schuhe and Harriet Goldberg Greenspan.
AB, Barnard College, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1972.
From assistant professor to associate professor University Chicago, 1972-1979. Associate professor University Maryland, College Park, 1979-1989, professor, since 1989.
(What is an emotion, and how is it connected with reasons ...)
(P.S. Greenspan uses the treatment of moral dilemmas as th...)
Member International Society for Research on Emotions (elected member).