From Passions to Emotions: The creation of a secular psychological category

Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: from passions and affections to emotions 2. Passions and affections in Augustine and Aquinas 3. From movements to mechanisms: passions, sentiments and affections in the Age of Reason 4. The Scottish creation of 'the emotions': David Hume, Thomas Brown, Thomas Chalmers 5. The physicalist appropriation of Brownian emotions: Alexander Bain, Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin 6. Christian and theistic responses to the physicalist emotions paradigm 7. What was an emotion in 1884? William James and his critics 8. Conclusions: how history can help us think about 'the emotions' Bibliography Index.