2023/10/28 by Michael Deigan, Juan S Piñeros Glasscock, Juan S. Piñeros Glasscock · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics #Emotions and Moral Behavior #Misinformation and Its Impacts
paper · doi:10.1093/pq/pqad096
Abstract Philosophers and psychologists sometimes categorize emotions like surprise and curiosity as specifically epistemic. Is there some reasonably unified and interesting class of emotions here? If so, what unifies it? This paper proposes and defends an evaluative account of epistemic emotions: What it is to be an epistemic emotion is to have fittingness conditions that distinctively involve some epistemic evaluation. We argue that this view has significant advantages over alternative proposals and is a promising way to identify a limited and interesting class of emotions.