Robert Pinto, University of Windsor
"Emotions and Reasons"
Pinto argues: (1) emotions can provide reasons for action because the evaluative attitudes at their core can, together with cognitive attitudes, provide reasons for the conative attitudes (desires and intentions) – which are reasons to act
(2) evaluative attitudes can be rooted in reasons insofar as they arise from a combination of cognitive attitudes together with other evaluative or conative attitudes which (potentially) render them rational.
Q1: Can one fear something without believing it is impeding (e.g., is it right to say that some S can live in fear of cancer without having the belief that it is impending?)
Q2: What is it to value wrongly? How does one determine that one has done so?
Q3: What about irrational fears/emotions? E.g., one certainly can fear spiders without having any beliefs about their badness. One can even fear them despite actively believing them to be good thing!