Emotion and Imagination

Preface viiPart I The range of emotionsRefined emotions 3Imagining in emotions 8Seeing as 17Emotions and thinking 22Keeping mood and emotion distinct 29Pressure 37Categories of emotion 44Part II Imagining vile emotionsImagining what we shouldn't feel 53Imagining minds: emotions and perspectives 56Imagining a point of view 63Misimagination 74Imagining invented characters: fiction and philosophy 83Invisible everyday failures 88Imagining awful actions 94Sympathy versus empathy 101The tradeoff 108Part III MemotionsThe threat of irrelevance 117Retracting emotions 122Emotions with multiple points of view 128The variety of moral emotions 134Emotional learning 142Smugness 149Part IV Families of emotionsThe ideas and the questions 157Shame, regret, embarrassment, remorse 159Shame-like versus regret-like 164Ghosts 170Looking backward and looking inward 175Gaps in the pattern: shame versus guilt 180Two kinds of pride 184The smug family 189Dark humour, radical possibilities 194Shaping our emotions 198End: a virtue if imagination 206Notes 210References 219Index 229