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]

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