Affectivism about intuitions

This article provides an account of intuitions: Affectivism. Affectivism states that intuitions are emotional experiences. The article proceeds as follows: first, the features that intuitions are typically taken to have are introduced. Then some issues with extant theories are outlined. After that, emotional experiences and their central features are brought into view. This is followed by a comparison of intuitions and emotional experiences, yielding the result that emotional experiences fit and elucidate the feature profile of intuitions. Finally, it is specified what kind of emotional experiences intuitions are: intuitions are typically mild emotional experiences that belong to the subclass of epistemic feelings

Epistemic Feelings are Affective Experiences

This paper develops the claim that epistemic feelings are affective experiences. To establish some diagnostic criteria, characteristic features of affective experiences are outlined: valence and arousal. Then, in order to pave the way for showing that epistemic feelings have said features, an initial challenge coming from introspection is addressed. Next, the paper turns to empirical findings showing that we can observe physiological and behavioural proxies for valence and arousal in epistemic tasks that typically rely on epistemic feelings. Finally, it is argued that the affective properties do not only correlate with epistemic feelings but that we, in fact, capitalise on these affective properties to perform the epistemic tasks. In other words: the affective properties in question constitute epistemic feelings

Seeing Differently: the Phillips Collects for a New Century

Review of Seeing Differently: the Phillips Collects for a New Century, Reviewed May 2021 by Shira Loev Eller, Art and Design Librarian, George Washington University Libraries, [email protected]

Asia in Amsterdam: The Culture of Luxury in the Golden Age

Review of Asia in Amsterdam: The Culture of Luxury in the Golden Age, Reviewed May 2016 by Shira Loev Eller, Art and Design Librarian, The George Washington University Libraries, [email protected]

Metacognitive Feelings:A Predictive-Processing Perspective

Metacognitive feelings are affective experiences that concern the subject's mental processes and capacities. Paradigmatic examples include the feeling of familiarity, the feeling of confidence, or the tip-of-the-tongue experience. In this article, we advance an account of metacognitive feelings based on the predictive-processing framework. The core tenet of predictive processing is that the brain is a hierarchical hypothesis-testing mechanism, predicting sensory input on the basis of prior experience and updating predictions on the basis of the incoming prediction error. According to the proposed account, metacognitive feelings arise out of a process in which visceral changes serve as cues to predict the error dynamics relating to a particular mental process. The expected rate of prediction-error reduction corresponds to the valence at the core of the emerging metacognitive feeling. Metacognitive feelings use prediction dynamics to model the agent's situation in a way that is both descriptive and directive. Thus, metacognitive feelings are not only an appraisal of ongoing cognitive performance but also a set of action policies. These action policies span predictive trajectories across bodily action, mental action, and interoceptive changes, which together transform the epistemic landscape within which metacognitive feelings unfold

Review: Brilliant Bodies: Fashioning Courtly Men in Early Renaissance Italy

Review of Brilliant Bodies: Fashioning Courtly Men in Early Renaissance Italy by Timothy McCall. The Pennsylvania State University Press, February 2022. 240 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-271-09060-3 (h/c), $109.95. Reviewed July 2022 by Shira Loev Eller, Art & Design Librarian, George Washington University, [email protected]

2-(4-Methyl­cyclo­hex-3-en­yl)propan-2-yl N-phenyl­carbamate

In the title carbamate compound, C17H23NO2, one of the Csp 3 atoms of the cyclo­hexene ring is disordered over two sites with refined occupancies of 0.55 (2) and 0.45 (2), both disorder components resulting in half-boat conformations. The mean plane through the carbamate unit is inclined at inter­planar angles of 14.80 (13), 18.30 (17) and 24.0 (2)°, respectively, with respect to the phenyl ring, and the major and minor disorder component cyclo­hexene rings. In the crystal structure, adjacent mol­ecules are linked into chains along [001] via inter­molecular N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds. The crystal structure is further stabilized by weak inter­molecular C—H⋯π inter­actions