Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction ix
4. I. EMOTIONAL INFLUENCES ON PERCEPTION AND THOUGHT
5. Subjective prerequisites for the construction of an objective world 3
6. Energetic effects of emotions on cognitions 23
7. Negative affective states’ effects on perception of affective pictures 57
8. Neural development 81
9. Consciousness, emotion and face 121
10. Phenomenal consciousness, sense impressions, and the logic of “what it’s like” 137
11. II. AGENCY AND CHOICE
12. Exposing the covert agent 157
13. Doing it and Meaning it 181
14. Anticipatory consciousness, Libet’s veto, and a close-enough theory of free will 197
15. Freud’s phenomenology of the emotions 217
16. Verbal expressions of self and emotions 243
17. III. AGENCY AND MORAL VALUE
18. Apt affect 287
19. The Varieties of Religious Experience considered from the perspective of James’s account of the stream of consciousness 303
20. Index 327