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Not a bridge but an organismic (general and causal) neuropsychology should make a difference in emotion theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2005

Juan Pascual-Leone*
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, York University, Toronto, OntarioM3J 1P3, Canada
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Abstract:

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Does Lewis imply that brain processes might be used to replace an as-yet-unavailable substantive organismic neuropsychology? To counteract this reductionist idea I argue for distinguishing between affects and emotions, and discuss a real-life example of implicit emotional appraisal. Failure to use organismic units of processing such as schemes or schemas makes the bridging attempt fall under a reductionist “mereological fallacy.”

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Open Peer Commentary
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