CFP: Expressive Acts, SI Review of Philosophy and Psychology

We invite papers for a special issue of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology on the topic of expressive acts. The aim of this special issue is to contribute to a deeper understanding of the role that the expression of emotions plays in communication, mutual understanding, and in the rational explanation of action.

Submissions to the special issue may address questions such as:

• Can actions motivated by emotions be rationally justified? If so, what form of rational justification is appropriate to them?

• How does the rational justification of actions motivated by emotion relate to the rational justification of emotion?

• How does emotion relate to its expression?

• Which emotional behaviors should be classed as actions, and why?

• Can emotions like anger, disgust or contempt be appropriate responses to moral wrongs?

• How do expressive speech acts communicate emotional states?

• How do expressive words encode emotional content (if any do)?

• What is the interpersonal, social, role of emotion expression?

• What is the role of emotion expression in acts of mass communication?

Invited Contributors

• Agneta Fischer (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

• Christopher Bennett (University of Sheffield)

• Stina Bäckström (Södertörn University)

• Thomas Holtgraves (Ball State University)

Online SUBMISSION: Please use the journal’s Online Manuscript Submission System Editorial Manager®. Do note that paper submissions via email are not accepted.

Author Submission’s GUIDELINES: Authors are asked to prepare their manuscripts (max. 9000 words) according to the journal’s standard Submission Guidelines.