Theoria et Historia Scientiarum vol VIII/2 (2008)

Contents

Ralph D. Ellis, Non-consummatory Motivations: Extropy and ‘Life Wish’ in the Self-organization
of Emotion

Bill Faw, A Neuro-psychological Model of Motivation

Phillip Okwo, How the Effect of Emotion on the Selectivity of Attention Supports Self-Organizing
Dynamical Systems as an Explanation of Consciousness

Maria Magoula Adamos, What is the Role of Imagination in Emotions?

John Cogan, Are the Research Strategies of Philosophy Suited to the Study of Emotion?

Louise Sundararajan, The Plot Thickens—or Not: Protonarratives of Emotions and the Principle of Sa
voring

Uriah Kriegel, The Reduction of Conscious Emotion

Helena de Preester, Body Image and the Visceral Dimension