The book contains contributions by leading figures in philosophy of mind
and action, emotion theory, and phenomenology. As the focus of the
volume is truly innovative we expect the book to sell well to both
philosophers and scholars from neighboring fields such as social and
cognitive science. The predominant view in analytic philosophy is that
an ability for self-evaluation is constitutive for agency and
intentionality. Until now, the debate is limited in two (possibly
mutually related) ways: Firstly, self-evaluation is usually discussed in
individual terms, and, as such, not sufficiently related to its social
dimensions; secondly, self-evaluation is viewed as a matter of belief
and desire, neglecting its affective and emotional aspects. The aim of
the book is to fill these research lacunas and to investigate the
question of how these two shortcomings of the received views are
related.