Episode 32, Impassibility and Passibility, Part 1 with Tasia Scrutton
The Reluctant Theologian Podcast
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Emotions - Cognitive or Physiological?
Emotion is quite a kind of modern category. Arguably it may not be the most helpful category. Thomas dixon certainly argues that that's the case er when compared with something like our older definitions of passions and affections, which seem to have a sort of cognitive vers physiological, a kind of split to them. So we all, in some sense, kind of know what an emotion is. O, like i said, we know how to use it, but tryn to coe with a precise definition. You're saying that that's really tricky. Yes. I mean, one reason for might be that emotion isquite a kind ofmodern category. But perhaps it's a
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