Emotion

=Emotion=

[Remember, you need to write at least 3 important take-aways under each of the topics below, in your own words.]

1. What is an emotion? Are they controlable?

2. What do emotions do for humans? How and when did the emotions develop?

3. The relation between reason and emotion. What parts of the brain correspond to each?

4. Empathy. Why is it important? How does it develop in children? What are possible consequences of abnormal development?

5. How does empathy happen in the brain? What is its relation to morality?

6. Compassion in animals. What are possible implications of finding this in animals? Do we?

7. Intuition. What does it mean for something to be innate? What is allegedly innate about language, psychology, biology, physics, aesthetics, and morality? How are these "knowledge"?

8. Emotions as motivation.

9. Emotions as a WOK. Role in basic assumptions and in reasoning.