The Epistemic Role of Emotions in Value Sensitivity: a Phenomenological Analysis

This paper presents a phenomenological account of central epistemic roles that emotions can play in the context value sensitivity. I specify significant ways are given lived experience as possible sources apprehension. Thereby, an explanandum or experienced framework for ongoing debate on relation between emotion and awareness is explicated. Through analysis, explicates illustrates three functions have being evaluative information, seen from point view experience: A) Emotions constitutively related to presentations value; B) tend prompt specific attention; C) Emotional openness crucial role directly grasping determinate value. Further, based analyses A), B), C), investigation makes intelligible what go wrong when distort our outlook argues it be analyzed result attention-shaping they present themselves experience.