Viņa grāmatiņa par emocijām ir viens no labākajiem gabaliem, kas par šo tēmu pēdējos gados ir uzrakstīts. Goldijs vispār ir interesants gadījums. Viņš filozofijai pievērsās tikai tad, kad viņam jau bija ap 50. Aizstāvēja disertāciju pie Bernarda Viljamsa par emocijām. Uz šīs disertācijas pamata tad arī tapa jau minētā grāmata.
Patiesībā jau viņam ir tikai divas grāmatas. Otra (On Personality) arī nav slikta, bet līdz The Emotions tomēr nevelk. Tiesa, rakstīta arī mazliet citā žanrā. Pārējie wiki šķirklī minētie izdevumi ir viņa editēti rakstu krājumi.
We are very sad to report that Peter Goldie died of cancer last night after a brief illness.
Philosophy was Peter Goldie’s second career. Before training as a philosopher he had a twenty-five year career in the City of London, culminating as the Chief Executive Officer of a public company listed in the FTSE 100. In 1990 he switched direction, studying for a BA at University College London, and then a BPhil and DPhil in Oxford. After that he was a Lecturer and then Reader at King’s College London, before moving to Manchester in 2005 to take up the Samuel Hall Chair in Philosophy.
He first became well-known for his monograph The Emotions 2000. On Personality followed in 2004, as well as a number of edited works in ethics, aesthetics and the philosophy of mind. Shortly before he died he sent his publishers the final typescript of his book The Mess Inside: Narrative, Emotion and the Mind. He was also pleased last week to see an advance copy of a collection he edited with Elisabeth Schellekens, The Aesthetic Mind.
Peter had a distinctive philosophical voice and range of interests. His death is a great loss to philosophy and his friends.
Matthew Kieran David Papineau Elisabeth Schellekens