P. Hutchinson 
Shame and Philosophy 
An Investigation in the Philosophy of Emotions and Ethics

Engaging with current research in the philosophy of emotions, both analytic and continental, the author argues that reductionist accounts of emotions leave us in a state of poverty regarding our understanding of our world and of ourselves.

Table of Content

Introduction Experimental Methods and Conceptual Confusion: Philosophy, Science and What Emotions Really Are To ‘Make Our Voices Resonate’ or ‘To Be Silent’? Shame as Fundamental Ontology Emotion, Cognition and World Shame and World Bibliography Index

About the author

PHIL HUTCHINSON is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. His philosophical interests include Wittgenstein and Philosophical Method, Political Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Emotions, Film, and Rhetoric and Informal Logic.