Concepts in Thought, Action, and Emotion

This collection presents philosophical perspectives on the link between concepts and language, experience, knowledge-how, and emotions. The essays span a variety of interrelated philosophical domains ranging from epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, and the philosophy of emotions.

Christoph Demmerling is Professor for Theoretical Philosophy at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. He is co-editor of the Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie. The philosophy of emotions, philosophy of language, and phenomenology are his main research areas. He has published a great number of writings, among them Sinn, Bedeutung, Verstehen. Untersuchungen zu Sprachphilosophie und Hermeneutik (2002) and Philosophie der Gefühle. Von Achtung bis Zorn (2007; with Hilge Landwer). Dirk Schröder is Research Associate in the department of philosophy at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena. He is the author of Bedeutung und Bedeutsamkeit. Philosophische Überlegungen zum Verhältnis von sprachlichem und nicht-sprachlichem Verstehen (mentis, forthcoming) and coauthor of the article Fähigkeiten und praktische Begriffe (DZPhil, 2013; with Christoph Demmerling).

1. Introduction: Concepts in Thought, Action and Emotion Christoph Demmerling and Dirk Schröder Part I. Concepts and Experience 2. Concepts and Experience: A Non-Representationalist Perspective Hans-Johann Glock 3. Conceptualism and the Notion of a Concept Hannah Ginsborg 4. Concepts, Belief, and Perception Alex Byrne 5. The Explanatory Merits of Reasons-First Epistemology Eva Schmidt Part II. Concepts and Language 6. Conceptual Thought Without Language? The Case from Animal Cognition Markus Wild 7. Concepts, Normativity, and Self-Knowledge: On Ginsborg's Notion of Primitive Normativity David Lauer 8. A Role for Language in Concept Formation Jasper Liptow 9. Practical Understanding, Concepts, and Language Dirk Schröder Part III. Concepts and Knowledge-How 10. Concepts and Action: Know-how and Beyond David Löwenstein 11. Knowledge-How and Its Exercises Hannes Worthmann 12. Practical Understanding: Skill as Grasp of Method John Bengson 13. Primary Know-How: Understanding Through Practical Concepts Martin Weichold Part IV. Concepts and Emotion 14. Emotions Inside Out: The Nonconceptual Content of Emotions Christine Tappolet 15. A Challenge to Perceptual Theories of Emotion Jan Slaby 16. Emotions and the Conceptual Space of Human Life Christoph Demmerling