"Did the stock market just crash?" – How can it be warranted to fear something that might already have happened?
This question is at the heart of my just released paper "A Paradox of Past-Directed Fear" in Ergo: An Open Access Journal of
#Philosophy:
doi.org/10.3998/ergo... #philsky #philemotionA Paradox of Past-Directed Fear: An Idealized Warrant Approach to the Fittingness of Emotion
This paper presents a paradox based on the following assumptions: that emotions are warranted when you are justified in thinking that the emotion is fitting, that there are warranted cases of past-dir...
