| Description |
x, 194 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN |
9780262518550 paperback |
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0262518554 paperback |
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9780262015585 hardback |
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0262015587 hardback |
| Note |
"A Bradford book" |
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Originally published: 2011. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-188) and index. |
| Contents |
Towards a functional theory of disgust -- Poisons and parasites : the entanglement thesis and the evolution of disgust -- Disgust's sentimental signaling system : expression, recognition and the transmission of cultural information -- Disgust and moral psychology : tribal instincts and the co-opt thesis -- Disgust and normative ethics : the irrelevance of repugnance and dangers of moralization. |
| Summary |
"People can be disgusted by the concrete and by the abstract--by an object they find physically repellent or by an ideology or value system they find morally abhorrent. Different things will disgust different people, depending on individual sensibilities or cultural backgrounds. In Yuck!, Daniel Kelly investigates the character and evolution of disgust, with an emphasis on understanding the role this emotion has come to play in our social and moral lives. Disgust has recently been riding a swell of scholarly attention, especially from those in the cognitive sciences and those in the humanities in the midst of the 'affective turn.' Kelly surveys the empirical literature and experimental results relevant to disgust and proposes a cognitive model that can accommodate what we now know about it. He offers a new account of the evolution of disgust that builds on the model and argues that expressions of disgust are part of a sophisticated but largely automatic signaling system that humans use to transmit information about what to avoid in the local environment. Drawing on gene culture coevolutionary theory, Kelly argues that disgust was co-opted to play certain roles in our moral psychology. He shows that many of the puzzling features of moral repugnance tinged with disgust are by-products of the imperfect fit between a cognitive system that evolved to protect against poisons and parasites and the social and moral issues on which it has been brought to bear. Kelly's account of this emotion provides a powerful argument against invoking disgust in the service of moral justification." --Page 4 of cover. |
| Series |
Life and mind.
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Bradford book.
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| Library Class |
Psychology G90.A89
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| Subject |
Aversion.
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Emotions.
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