Journal Articles
2024. Psychology needs Philosophy. link
Nature Reviews Psychology
2023. Towards an Affective Quality Space. pdf | link
Journal of Consciousness Studies
2022 Emotions and Their Reasons. pdf | link
Inquiry
2022 Epistemic Emotions Justified. pdf | link
Philosophies
2022 On Being Angry at Oneself. pdf | link
Ratio
2021 The Epistemic Role of Outlaw Emotions. pdf | link
Ergo
2021 Is Anger a Hostile Emotion? pdf | link
Review of Philosophy and Psychology
2021 Anger and its Desires. pdf | link
European Journal of Philosophy
2016 Adaptable history biases in human perceptual decisions. pdf | link
with Abrahamyan, A., Dakin, S.C., Carandini, M., Gardner, J.L.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Nature Reviews Psychology
2023. Towards an Affective Quality Space. pdf | link
Journal of Consciousness Studies
2022 Emotions and Their Reasons. pdf | link
Inquiry
2022 Epistemic Emotions Justified. pdf | link
Philosophies
2022 On Being Angry at Oneself. pdf | link
Ratio
2021 The Epistemic Role of Outlaw Emotions. pdf | link
Ergo
2021 Is Anger a Hostile Emotion? pdf | link
Review of Philosophy and Psychology
2021 Anger and its Desires. pdf | link
European Journal of Philosophy
2016 Adaptable history biases in human perceptual decisions. pdf | link
with Abrahamyan, A., Dakin, S.C., Carandini, M., Gardner, J.L.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Book Chapters
2022 The Ineffable as Radical. pdf | link
in J. Deonna, F. Teroni & C. Tappolet (eds.). Festschrift for Ronald de Sousa.
Geneva: University of Geneva.
2021 The Efficacy of Anger. pdf | link
in Falcato, A. & Silva, S. (eds.) The Politics of Emotional Shockwaves.
London: Palgrave Macmillan
in J. Deonna, F. Teroni & C. Tappolet (eds.). Festschrift for Ronald de Sousa.
Geneva: University of Geneva.
2021 The Efficacy of Anger. pdf | link
in Falcato, A. & Silva, S. (eds.) The Politics of Emotional Shockwaves.
London: Palgrave Macmillan
Book Reviews
2023 Review of Myisha Cherry's 'The Case for Rage: Why Anger is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle' Oxford University Press. pdf | link
Mind
2025 Review of Krista K.Thomason's Dancing with the Devil: Why Bad Feelings Make Life Good. New York: Oxford University Press.
Ethics
Mind
2025 Review of Krista K.Thomason's Dancing with the Devil: Why Bad Feelings Make Life Good. New York: Oxford University Press.
Ethics
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Doctoral Thesis |
The Rationality of Anger
Our personal and academic stance towards anger is perhaps best characterized as intensely ambivalent. Condemned as a personal vice on the one hand, while commended as a justified attitude on the other, anger is often cast as a destructive force while at others hailed as necessary fuel for positive change. The Stoics and their modern supporters have famously advocated against anger. Nussbaum (2016), for example, claims anger is counterproductive and intrinsically immoral. Feminist theorists (Frye, 1983; Lorde, 1984; Narayan, 1988) on the other hand highlight the crucial motivational, moral, and epistemic value of anger in fighting against the oppressive status quo. The liberatory potential bestowed upon anger by feminist philosophers has not received sustained attention in analytic philosophy of mind or epistemology. My doctoral thesis develops an empirically informed account of anger, and its rationality, that lays the foundations for the emotion to play the political roles feminists afford it. Four main findings emerge: that the dominant conception of anger should be revised, that anger is an effective and often constructive way of confronting social injustice, that anger, as an emotion, enjoys a sui generis relation to its reasons, and that this in turn allows anger to play distinctive and crucial epistemic roles. Available here |
Selected Talks |
The Epistemic Role of Outlaw Emotions at the 2020 Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and upcoming at the 2021 Pacific APA The Structure of Emotional Content Center for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp 30/04/20 Epistemic Perceptualism and the Objection from Outlaw Emotions Colloquium in the History of Moral and Political Philosophy: The Politics of Emotions, University of Minho, Braga, 30/01/19 Ethics Research Centre (CRÊ) lecture series, Montreal, 23/05/18 Anger and Social Justice UQAM Cognitio Conference, Montreal, 23/06/17 Experimental Philosophy workshop, Yale University, 27/04/17 Sui Generis Emotions: The Case From a Literary Experiment European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions, Complutense University of Madrid, 19/09/17 Epistemic Emotions Justified Oficina de Filosofia Analitica, University of Lisbon, 11/02/17 Workshop on Mind, Language and Reasoning, Institute of Philosophy 23/11/15 Responses Comment on ‘Silencing, subordination and the Mainstream Media’ by Andrew Knox, UCL Philosophy Graduate Conference, 28/09/17 Comment on ‘Slurs: Roles and Power’ by Mihaela Popa at Philosophy of Mind and Language Workshop, University of Barcelona, 23/09/16 |
