Vazard Juliette, Kurth Charlie
City University of New York, Graduate Center and University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Department of Philosophy, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and Western Michigan University, Michigan, USA.
Synthese. 2022;200(4):327. doi: 10.1007/s11229-022-03794-9. Epub 2022 Aug 1.
The aim of this collection is to show how work in the analytic philosophical tradition can shed light on the nature, value, and experience of anxiety. Contrary to widespread assumptions, anxiety is not best understood as a mental disorder, or an intrinsically debilitating state, but rather as an often valuable affective state which heightens our sensitivity to potential threats and challenges. As the contributions in this volume demonstrate, learning about anxiety can be relevant for debates, not only in the philosophy of emotion, but also in epistemology, value theory, and the philosophy of psychopathology. In this introductory article, we also show that there is still much to discover about the relevance that anxiety may have for moral action, self-understanding, and mental health.
本论文集的目的是展示分析哲学传统中的研究如何能够阐明焦虑的本质、价值和体验。与广泛的假设相反，焦虑并非最好被理解为一种精神障碍，或一种本质上使人衰弱的状态，而是一种往往具有价值的情感状态，它能提高我们对潜在威胁和挑战的敏感度。正如本卷中的论文所表明的，对焦虑的研究不仅与情感哲学中的辩论相关，而且与认识论、价值理论和精神病理学哲学中的辩论也相关。在这篇引言文章中，我们还表明，关于焦虑在道德行为、自我理解和心理健康方面的相关性，仍有许多有待发现之处。
