Abstract
Commentary: Constructing nonhuman animal emotion.
Highlights
In a recent opinion paper, Bliss-Moreau argues for a new framework for studying non-human animal emotions
Theories of Constructed Emotions (TCE) proponents contend the central assumption of the Classical Views of Emotion (CVE), i.e., that emotion categories such as “fear” and “anger” each denote a biologically inherited mechanism which is shared by all humankind, and arguably by several mammals
One thing to keep in mind here is that different scholars seem to have different explanatory targets when they speak of emotion and folk emotion terms (e.g., “fear”)
Summary
A commentary on Constructing nonhuman animal emotion by Bliss-Moreau, E. In a recent opinion paper, Bliss-Moreau argues for a new framework for studying non-human animal emotions. Inasmuch as it makes room for the construction of genuinely non-human emotions, TCE allegedly enables us to “understand animal minds for their own sake”
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