On the characterisation of emotions, and its relevance to the understanding of trust

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• Andrew Jones, Professor of the Logic & Theory of Normative Systems, Department of Informatics, King's College London
• Tuesday 29 November 2011, 12:00-13:00
• Dennis Gabor Seminar Room (611), EEE Department.

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In a little known paper, published in 1986, Ingmar Pörn outlined a modal-logical characterisation of some types of emotions. A key premise in his approach was that each emotion exhibits what he called double intentionality: respectively the volitional and epistemic aspects of their intentionality.

Pörn sought to define a set of primary, or atomic, emotional types in terms of their volitional and epistemic components, and then went on to indicate how more complex types could be generated from them.

In the talk, I shall describe the key features of Pörn’s approach, and then offer some conjectures on how it might be used to develop the account of the concept of trust presented in Jones [2002].

References

Ingmar Pörn, “On the nature of emotions”, in Changing Positions, Philosophical Studies published by the Department of Philosophy, University of Uppsala, Sweden, No. 38, pp. 205-214, 1986.

Andrew J I Jones, “On the concept of trust”, Decision Support Systems, vol. 33, no.3, pp. 225-232, 2002.

This talk is part of the Complexity & Networks Group series.

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