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Dr Giovanna Colombetti BA (Florence), MSc (Birmingham), DPhil (Sussex)

Publications

Edited book

Colombetti, G. & Thompson, E. (2005)(eds), Emotion Experience. Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic.  (A special triple issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies)

Articles

Colombetti, G. & Torrance, S. (2009). Emotion and ethics: An inter-(en)active appraoch. Phenomenology & the Cognitive Sciences, 8, 505-526.

Colombetti, G. (2009). What language does to feelings. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 16, 4-26.

Colombetti, G. (2009). Reply to Barrett, Gendron and Huang. Philosophical Psychology, 22, 439-442.

Colombetti, G. (2009). From affect programs to dynamical discrete emotions. Philosophical Psychology,  22, 407-425.

Colombetti, G. (2008). The Somatic Marker Hypotheses, and what the Iowa Gambling Task does and does not show. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 59, pp. 51-71.

Colombetti, G. & Thompson, E. (2008). ll corpo ed il vissuto affettivo: verso un approccio "enattivo" allo studio delle emozioni. Rivista di Estetica, 37, pp. 77-96. (this is my translation and abridged version of 'The feeling body' - see below).

Colombetti, G. (2007). Enactive Appraisal. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 6, pp. 527-46.

Colombetti, G. (2005). Appraising valence. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 12, pp. 103-26.

Colombetti, G. & Thompson, E. (2005). Enacting emotional interpretations with feeling. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, pp. 200-1 (commentary).

Colombetti, G. (2003). Complexity as a new framework for emotion theory. Philosophy of Science and Logic, 1. (online journal)

Chapters in books

Colombetti, G. (forthcoming). Enaction, sense-making and emotion. In: J. Stewart, O. Gapenne & E. di Paolo (eds), Enaction: Towards a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Colombetti, G. & Thompson, E. (2008). The feeling body: towards an enactive approach to emotion. In: W.F. Overton, U. Müller & J.L. Newman (eds), Developmental Perspectives on Embodiment and Consciousness (pp. 45-68). New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Ass.