How am I supposed to feel?

• Main Author: Forcehimes, Andrew T.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Humanities::Philosophy; Emotions; Value
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/155067
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this essay, I raise a puzzle concerning rational emotions. The puzzle arises from the fact that a handful of very plausible claims seem to commit us to the idea that whether a subject ought to have a certain emotion at a given time in part depends on the fittingness of the intensity of the feelin...