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ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
Published/Forthcoming/In Press
Emotion Theory: the Routledge Comprehensive Guide, editor, 62 chapters, Routledge (in press)
Introduction to Volume 1: The Value of History, a Wealth of Theoretical Options and the Ingredients of Emotion Theory (in press)
Introduction to Volume 2: Theories of Specific Emotions, a Master Table of Case Studies and Some Key Challenges (in press)
“Motivational Theories of Emotions in Philosophy and Affective Science”. In Emotion Theory: the Routledge Comprehensive Guide (in press), ed. Andrea Scarantino, Routledge.
Commentary: Motivational Constructs: Real, Causally Powerful, Not Psychologically Constructed, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (in press)
"What is it about your face that tells me what you want from me? Emotional appeals are associated with specific mental images", coauthored with Ursula Hess and Shlomo Hareli, forthcoming, Cognition and Emotion.
""Aesthetic Emotions, Feelings, and Modes of Action Readiness". In Festschrift in Honor of Ronald De Sousa (forthcoming), edited by Tappolet, C., Deonna, J. and Teroni, F.
"Emotional Expressions as Appeals to Recipients", co-authored with Shlomo Hareli and Ursula Hess, Forthcoming, Emotion (2021). Penultimate version, check Emotion for the ultimate version and the supplementary materials.
"The Rise of Affectivism", position paper co-authored with 63 other authors, first authors Daniel Dukes and David Sander, Nature Human Behavior, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01130-8 (2021)
“Exploring the Roles of Emotions in Self-Control”. In Al Mele, Surrounding Self-Control, Oxford University Press (2020).
“Affective Pragmatics Extended: from Natural to Overt Expressions of Emotions”. In Ursula Hess and Shlomo Hareli, The Social Nature of Emotion Expression, Springer, (2019). Penultimate version.
"Emotion", co-authored with Ronald De Sousa, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Sept 2018).
"Are LeDoux's Survival Circuits Basic Emotions Under a Different Name?", Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences (Forthcoming).
"Commentary: Two Challenges for Adolphs and Andler’s Functionalist Theory of Emotions" (Forthcoming), Emotion Review.
"Emotional Expressions as Speech Act Analogs", Philosophy of Science (Forthcoming).Penultimate version. The final version is not yet available.
“How to Do Things with Emotional Expressions:The Theory of Affective Pragmatics”, Psychological Inquiry (2017).
"Twelve Questions for the Theory of Affective Pragmatics", Psychological Inquiry (2017).
"Do Emotions Cause Actions, and If So How?", Emotion Review, Special Issue on Emotions and Action (2017).Penultimate version. The final version is available here: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1754073916679005.
"The Philosophy of Emotions and Its Impact on Affective Science", in The Handbook of Emotions, 4th ed., Guildford University Press, Michael Lewis, Jeanette Haviland-Jones and Lisa Feldman Barrett, eds. New York: The Guilford Press (2016). Penultimate version. The final version is available here: http://www.guilford.com/books/Handbook-of-Emotions/Barrett-Lewis-Haviland-Jones/9781462525348/editors.
"Computation and Information", co-authored with Gualtiero Piccinini, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Information, Luciano Floridi, ed., (2016). Penultimate version. The final version is available here: http://www.amazon.com/Routledge-Handbook-Philosophy-Information-Handbooks/dp/113879693X.
“Voodoo Dolls and Angry Lions: How Emotions Explain Arational Actions”, co-authored with Michael Nielsen, Philosophical Studies (2015). Penultimate version. The final version is available at http://www.link.springer.com.
"Information as a Probabilistic Difference Maker," Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2015). Penultimate version. The final version is available at http://www.tandfonline.com/.
"Contextually Variable Signals Can Be Functionally Referential", co-authored with Zanna Clay, Animal Behaviour (2015).
“Basic Emotions,Psychological Construction and the Problem of Variability,” The Psychological Construction of Emotion, James Russell and Lisa Barrett, eds, Guilford Press (2015), 334-376.
"The Motivational Theory of Emotions", Moral Psychology and Human Agency, Daniel Jacobson and Justin D’Arms, eds. Oxford University Press (2014), 156-185.
"Rethinking Functional Reference,“ Philosophy of Science (2013), 80, 1006–1018.
"Animal Communication as Information-Mediated Influence," Animal Communication Theory: Information and Influence, Ulrich Stegmann, ed., Cambridge University Press (2013), 63-81.
"Animal Signals Carry Information Without Encoding It," commentaries on Rendall and Owren, Fisher, Morton, Coss and Owings,” Animal Communication Theory: Information and Influence, Ulrich Stegmann, ed., Cambridge University Press (2013), 84-87.
“How To Define Emotions Scientifically,” target article, Emotion Review, (2012), Vol. 4, No. 4, 358–368.
"Some Further Thoughts on Emotions and Natural Kinds," Emotion Review (2012), reply to commentators, Vol. 4, No. 4, 391–393.
“Functional Specialization Does Not Require A One-To-One Mapping Between Brain Regions and Emotions,” invited commentary on “The Brain Basis of Emotion” by Kristen A. Lindquist, Tor D. Wager, Hedy Kober, Eliza Bliss-Moreau, and Lisa Feldman Barrett, target article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2012).
“Discrete Emotions: From Folk Psychology to Causal Mechanisms,” Categorical and Dimensional Models of Affect: A Seminar on the Theories of Panksepp and Russell, Peter Zachar and Ralph Ellis, eds, Consciousness and Emotion book series, John Benjamins: Amsterdam (2012).
“Don’t Give Up on Basic Emotions" co-authored with Paul Griffiths, Emotion Review (2011).
"Information Processing, Computation and Cognition,” co-authored with Gualtiero Piccinini, Journal of Biological Physics (2011), 37:1–38. .
“Computation vs. Information Processing,” co-authored with Gualtiero Piccinini, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science (2010).
“Insights and Blindspots of the Cognitivist Theory of Emotions”, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (September 2010, volume 60, issue 3).
“Evidence of Coordination as a Cure for Concept Eliminativism,” invited commentary on Doing Without Concepts, Edouard Machery (Oxford University Press, 2009), Behavioral and Brain Sciences, (2010), 33:223-224, Cambridge University Press (penultimate version).
"The Disjunctive Theory of Art: The Cluster Account Reformulated," co-authored with Francis Longworth, British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 50, Number 2, April 2010, pp. 151-167(17).
"Animal Communication Between Influence and Information," Animal Behaviour (in press, 2010, doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.03.005)
"Information Without Truth," co-authored with Gualtiero Piccinini, Metaphilosophy, Volume 41, Number 3, April 2010 , pp. 313-330(18).
"Inductive Risk and Justice in Organ Allocation," Bioethics (in press, doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2009.01746.x, first published online July 29 2010).
“Core Affect and Natural Affective Kinds,” Philosophy of Science, 76 (December 2009) pp. 940–957.
"Emotions in the Wild: The Situated Perspective on Emotion,” co-authored with Paul Griffiths, Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition, P. Robbins and M. Aydede, eds., (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009): 437-453 (penultimate version).
“On The Role of Values in Economics: Robbins and His Critics,” Journal of the History of Economic Thought 31 (2009): 449-473.
“Shell Games, Information, and Counterfactuals,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 86, Issue 4 (2008): 629 – 634.
"Affordances Explained,” Philosophy of Science 70 (2003): 949-961.1.
REVIEWS
Review of Thinking About Feeling (ed. Robert Solomon) and Emotion, Evolution and Rationality (eds. Dylan Evans and Pierre Cuse), Mind (2006), 115: 812-82
Review of Passionate Engines by Craig DeLancey, Philosophy of Science (2004), 71, pp. 227-230