ABSTRACT

Much of the recent work in psychology (and affective science) has shown that humans regulate their emotions nearly constantly, sometimes well and sometimes poorly. I argue that properly regulating one’s emotions displays emotional rationality, and failing to do so displays emotional irrationality. If an agent feels an emotion that is obviously problematic for the agent to feel and she is aware that it is problematic, then the agent ought to regulate her emotions in future similar situations. To capture this aspect of emotional rationality, I introduce the concept of imprudence, which is meant to capture a familiar way that we assess each other’s emotions, despite the fact that it has yet to be a factor in the literature on emotions in philosophy, psychology, or affective science.

摘要

心理学（和情感科学）的最新研究表明，人类几乎总是在调节自己的情绪，有时好时坏。我认为，适当地调节自己的情绪会表现出情绪上的理性，而未能做到这一点则会表现出情绪上的非理性。如果一个代理人感觉到一种情绪，对于代理人来说显然是有问题的，并且她意识到这是有问题的，则该代理人应该在以后的类似情况下调节自己的情绪。为了捕捉情感理性的这一方面，我引入了不礼让的概念，尽管它实际上尚未成为有关哲学，心理学中情感因素的一个事实，但它旨在捕捉一种我们评估彼此情感的熟悉方式。或情感科学。