Cognitive Feelings An Essay on the Affective Interfaces of the Mind

Jérôme Dokic, Professor of Cognitive Philosophy, Institut Jean-Nicod, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

Jérôme Dokic is Professor of Cognitive Philosophy at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and a member of Institut Jean-Nicod in Paris. He has written many essays on indexicality, perception, memory, and imagination and more recently aesthetic experience and cognitive feelings. His previous books include La philosophie du son with Roberto Casati (Philosophy of sound, Chambon, 1994), L'esprit en mouvement: Essai sur la dynamique cognitive (Mind in motion: Essay on cognitive dynamics, CSLI, 2001), Qu'est-ce que la perception? (What is perception?, Vrin, 2nd edition, 2009), and Ramsey: Truth and Success with Pascal Engel (Routledge, 2002).

Chapter 1. Introduction: What Are Cognitive Feelings and Why Study Them?Part I. FoundationsChapter 2. Cognitive Feelings and EmotionsChapter 3. Psychological Models of Cognitive FeelingsChapter 4. Epistemological Models of Cognitive FeelingsPart II. FoundationsChapter 5. Reality I: Presence and VirtualityChapter 6. Reality II: Monitoring and CuesChapter 7. FamiliarityChapter 8. Reality, Familiarity, and RecognitionChapter 9. Memory FeelingsPart III. TransfigurationsChapter 10. Aesthetic ExperiencesChapter 11. Self-Transcendent ExperiencesChapter 12. General Conclusion: Results and Prospects