{"id":1260,"date":"2017-03-01T16:46:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T16:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2017-03-01T16:50:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T16:50:23","slug":"thomas-dixon-responds-to-psychologist-agnes-moors-on-emotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/news\/thomas-dixon-responds-to-psychologist-agnes-moors-on-emotions\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Dixon responds to psychologist Agnes Moors on emotions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">Professor Thomas Dixon is among several emotions researchers\u00a0from different disciplines\u00a0offering their\u00a0responses \u00a0to an important new article by the psychologist Agnes Moors\u00a0in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/hpli20\/28\/1%20\">latest issue of\u00a0<\/a><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/hpli20\/28\/1%20\">Psychological Inquiry<\/a>. <\/i>Moors argues that &#8220;the emotions&#8221; fail to constitute a coherent and scientifically meaningful domain, and puts forward a new sceptical theory. Dixon&#8217;s response finds parallels to Moors&#8217;s arguments in earlier philosophical theories, and especially in the debate in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries about whether emotions were more like chemical compounds or physical aggregates.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Thomas Dixon is among several emotions researchers\u00a0from different disciplines\u00a0offering their\u00a0responses \u00a0to an important new article by the psychologist Agnes Moors\u00a0in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/hpli20\/28\/1%20\">latest issue of\u00a0<\/a><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/hpli20\/28\/1%20\">Psychological Inquiry<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1261,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}