The Emotional Mind by Tom Cochrane HARDBACK 9781108429672

The Emotional Mind\nby Tom Cochrane\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Tom Cochrane\nTitle: The Emotional Mind\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Philosophy of mind\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2019\nISBN-13: 9781108429672\nISBN-10: 110842967X\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nIn this book, Tom Cochrane develops a new control theory of the emotions and related affective states. Grounded in the basic principle of negative feedback control, his original account outlines a new fundamental kind of mental content called ''valent representation''. Upon this foundation, Cochrane constructs new models for emotions, pains and pleasures, moods, expressive behaviours, evaluative reasoning, personality traits and long-term character commitments. These various sta.