Andrea Scarantino

Research

Journal Articles

1. “How Emotions About Fictional Objects Motivate Behavior.” Rivista di Estetica (2026), 91, 71–93. PDF
2. “Moors’ Eliminativism Cross-Examined: Why Emotions Are Not Goal-Directed Cycles.” Emotion Review (2026), 18(2), 80–84. PDF
3. “Motivational Constructs: Real, Causally Powerful, Not Psychologically Constructed.” Commentary. Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2025), 48, e42. PDF
4. “What Is It About Your Face That Tells Me What You Want From Me? Emotional Appeals Are Associated With Specific Mental Images.” With Ursula Hess & Shlomo Hareli. Cognition and Emotion (2024), 38(3), 389–398. PDF · DOI
5. “Emotional Expressions as Appeals to Recipients.” With Shlomo Hareli & Ursula Hess. Emotion (2022), 22(8), 1856–1868. PDF · DOI
6. “The Rise of Affectivism.” With Daniel Dukes, David Sander & 63 others. Nature Human Behaviour (2021), 5, 816–820. Open access
7. “Emotional Expressions as Speech Act Analogs.” Philosophy of Science (2018), 85(5), 1038–1053. PDF · DOI
8. “Are LeDoux’s Survival Circuits Basic Emotions Under a Different Name?” Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences (2018), 24, 75–82. PDF · DOI
9. “Comment: Two Challenges for Adolphs and Andler’s Functionalist Theory of Emotions.” Emotion Review (2018), 10(3), 202–203. PDF
10. “How to Do Things With Emotional Expressions: The Theory of Affective Pragmatics.” Psychological Inquiry (2017), 28(2–3), 165–185. PDF
11. “Twelve Questions for the Theory of Affective Pragmatics.” Psychological Inquiry (2017), 28(2–3), 217–232. PDF
12. “Do Emotions Cause Actions, and If So How?” Emotion Review (2017), 9(4), 326–334. PDF · Record · DOI
13. “Voodoo Dolls and Angry Lions: How Emotions Explain Arational Actions.” With Michael Nielsen. Philosophical Studies (2015), 172(11), 2975–2998. PDF · Record · DOI
14. “Information as a Probabilistic Difference Maker.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2015), 93(3), 419–443. PDF · Record
15. “Contextually Variable Signals Can Be Functionally Referential.” With Zanna Clay. Animal Behaviour (2015), 100, e1–e8. PDF
16. “Rethinking Functional Reference.” Philosophy of Science (2013), 80(5), 1006–1018. PDF · Record
17. “How to Define Emotions Scientifically.” Target article. Emotion Review (2012), 4(4), 358–368. PDF · Record · DOI
18. “Some Further Thoughts on Emotions and Natural Kinds.” Reply to commentators. Emotion Review (2012), 4(4), 391–393. PDF · Record
19. “Functional Specialization Does Not Require a One-to-One Mapping Between Brain Regions and Emotions.” Commentary on Lindquist et al. Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2012), 35(3), 161–162. PDF · Record
20. “Don’t Give Up on Basic Emotions.” With Paul Griffiths. Emotion Review (2011), 3(4), 444–454. PDF · Record
21. “Information Processing, Computation and Cognition.” With Gualtiero Piccinini. Journal of Biological Physics (2011), 37(1), 1–38. Open access · Record
22. “Computation vs. Information Processing: Why Their Difference Matters to Cognitive Science.” With Gualtiero Piccinini. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (2010), 41(3), 237–246. PDF · Record
23. “Insights and Blindspots of the Cognitivist Theory of Emotions.” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2010), 61(4), 729–768. PDF
24. “Evidence of Coordination as a Cure for Concept Eliminativism.” Commentary on Machery, Doing Without Concepts. Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2010), 33(2–3), 223–224. PDF
25. “The Disjunctive Theory of Art: The Cluster Account Reformulated.” With Francis Longworth. British Journal of Aesthetics (2010), 50(2), 151–167. PDF · Record
26. “Animal Communication Between Influence and Information.” Animal Behaviour (2010), 79, e1–e5. PDF · DOI
27. “Information Without Truth.” With Gualtiero Piccinini. Metaphilosophy (2010), 41(3), 313–330. PDF · Record
28. “Inductive Risk and Justice in Kidney Allocation.” Bioethics (2010), 24(8), 421–430. PDF · Record
29. “Core Affect and Natural Affective Kinds.” Philosophy of Science (2009), 76(5), 940–957. PDF · Record
30. “On the Role of Values in Economics: Robbins and His Critics.” Journal of the History of Economic Thought (2009), 31(4), 449–473. PDF
31. “Shell Games, Information, and Counterfactuals.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2008), 86(4), 629–634. PDF · Record
32. “Affordances Explained.” Philosophy of Science (2003), 70(5), 949–961. PDF

Book Chapters

1. “Motivational Theories of Emotions in Philosophy and Affective Science.” In A. Scarantino (ed.), Emotion Theory: The Routledge Comprehensive Guide, Routledge (2024). PDF · Publisher
2. Introduction to Volume 1: The Value of History, a Wealth of Theoretical Options, and the Ingredients of Emotion Theory. In Emotion Theory: The Routledge Comprehensive Guide, Routledge (2024). PDF · Publisher
3. Introduction to Volume 2: Theories of Specific Emotions, a Master Table of Case Studies, and Some Key Challenges. In Emotion Theory: The Routledge Comprehensive Guide, Routledge (2024). PDF · Publisher
4. “Emotionen und Selbstkontrolle.” In I. von Maur, U. Meyer & S. Walter (eds.), Wozu Gefühle?, Brill | mentis (2023), 159–185. Trans. Sven Walter. PDF · DOI
5. “Aesthetic Emotions, Feelings, and Modes of Action Readiness.” In C. Tappolet, F. Teroni & J. Deonna (eds.), A Tribute to Ronald de Sousa (2022). PDF
6. “Exploring the Roles of Emotions in Self-Control.” In A. Mele (ed.), Surrounding Self-Control, Oxford University Press (2020), 116–141. PDF
7. “Affective Pragmatics Extended: From Natural to Overt Expressions of Emotions.” In U. Hess & S. Hareli (eds.), The Social Nature of Emotion Expression, Springer (2019), 49–81. PDF · DOI
8. “Emotion.” With Ronald de Sousa. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2018). Open access
9. “The Philosophy of Emotions and Its Impact on Affective Science.” In L. F. Barrett, M. Lewis & J. Haviland-Jones (eds.), Handbook of Emotions, 4th ed., Guilford Press (2016), 3–48. PDF
10. “Computation and Information in Cognitive Neuroscience.” With Gualtiero Piccinini. In L. Floridi (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Information (2016). PDF
11. “Basic Emotions, Psychological Construction, and the Problem of Variability.” In J. Russell & L. F. Barrett (eds.), The Psychological Construction of Emotion, Guilford Press (2015), 334–376. PDF
12. “The Motivational Theory of Emotions.” In J. D’Arms & D. Jacobson (eds.), Moral Psychology and Human Agency, Oxford University Press (2014), 156–185. PDF
13. “Animal Communication as Information-Mediated Influence.” In U. Stegmann (ed.), Animal Communication Theory: Information and Influence, Cambridge University Press (2013), 63–81. PDF
14. “Commentaries on Rendall and Owren, Fisher, Morton, and Coss and Owings.” In U. Stegmann (ed.), Animal Communication Theory: Information and Influence, Cambridge University Press (2013), 84–87. PDF
15. “Discrete Emotions: From Folk Psychology to Causal Mechanisms.” In P. Zachar & R. Ellis (eds.), Categorical Versus Dimensional Models of Affect, John Benjamins (2012), 135–154. PDF
16. “Emotions in the Wild: The Situated Perspective on Emotion.” With Paul Griffiths. In P. Robbins & M. Aydede (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition, Cambridge University Press (2009), 437–453. PDF · Record

Book Reviews

1. Review of R. Solomon (ed.), Thinking About Feeling, and D. Evans & P. Cruse (eds.), Emotion, Evolution and Rationality. Mind (2006), 115(459), 812–820. Record
2. Review of C. DeLancey, Passionate Engines. Philosophy of Science (2004), 71(2), 227–230. Record

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