In a little known paper, published in 1986, Ingmar Pörn outlined a modal-logical characterisation of some types of emotions. A key premise in his approach was that each emotion exhibits what he called double intentionality: respectively the volitional and epistemic aspects of their intentionality.
Pörn sought to define a set of primary, or atomic, emotional types in terms of their volitional and epistemic components, and then went on to indicate how more complex types could be generated from them.
In the talk, I shall describe the key features of Pörn’s approach, and then offer some conjectures on how it might be used to develop the account of the concept of trust presented in Jones [2002].
References
Ingmar Pörn, “On the nature of emotions”, in Changing Positions, Philosophical Studies published by the Department of Philosophy, University of Uppsala, Sweden, No. 38, pp. 205-214, 1986.
Andrew J I Jones, “On the concept of trust”, Decision Support Systems, vol. 33, no.3, pp. 225-232, 2002.
About the speaker
Andrew J I Jones is Professor of the Logic and Theory of Normative Systems at the Department of Informatics (formerly Department of Computer Science), King’s College London. From 1986 to 2001, he was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo, Norway, where he was also an associate member of the Norwegian Research Centre for Computers and Law.