Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject Philosophy – Miscellaneous, grade: 2, 3, Free University of Berlin (Institut für Philosophie), course: Epistemology of Emotion, language: English, abstract: In the following, I am going to analyse the effects of affective mood states on information processes. I will start by defining emotions and then taking mood into account as an essential aspect for the philosophy of mind. I will thereby explain the term ‘mood congruence’ and demonstrate the mood-congruency effects on information processing – specifically positive- and negative moods effect. Next, the focus will lie on how an epistemology of mood and background / existential feelings could look like. In order to elaborate on my idea, I am going to examine Matthew Ratcliffe’s epistemological approach to background feelings. Subsequently, I will address the gap between epistemology of emotions and psychology which, ultimately, is responsible for a lack of understanding of the connection between affective mood states and thoughts.
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