{"id":449,"date":"2017-03-09T11:57:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T11:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/livingwithfeeling\/?p=449"},"modified":"2017-03-09T11:57:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T11:57:27","slug":"thomas-dixon-responds-to-psychologist-agnes-moors-on-emotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/livingwithfeeling\/2017\/03\/09\/thomas-dixon-responds-to-psychologist-agnes-moors-on-emotions\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Dixon responds to psychologist Agnes Moors on emotions"},"content":{"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>Moors argues that \u201cthe emotions\u201d fail to constitute a coherent and scientifically meaningful domain, and puts forward a new sceptical theory. Dixon\u2019s response finds parallels to Moors\u2019s 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.<\/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":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/livingwithfeeling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/livingwithfeeling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/livingwithfeeling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/livingwithfeeling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/livingwithfeeling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/livingwithfeeling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/livingwithfeeling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/livingwithfeeling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/livingwithfeeling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/livingwithfeeling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}