Philosophy and Psychology of Ambivalence

<p>This book collects original essays by top scholars that address questions about the nature origins and effects of ambivalence. While the nature of agency has received an enormous amount of attention relatively little has been written about ambivalence or how it relates to topics such as agency rationality justification knowledge autonomy self-governance well-being social cognition and various other topics. Ambivalence presents unique questions related to many major philosophical debates. For example it relates to debates about virtues rationality and decision-making agency or authenticity emotions and social or political metacognition. It is also relevant to a variety of larger debates in philosophy and psychology including nature vs. nature objectivity vs. subjectivity or nomothetic vs. idiographic.</p><p>The essays in this book offer novel and wide-ranging perspectives on this emerging philosophical topic. They will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in ethics epistemology philosophy of mind philosophy of psychology and social cognition.</p>