Organon F

Volume 32, February 2025, Issue 1, Pages 42–49

ISSN 2585-7150 (online)

I argue that sadness is not about loss. I present two coun-terexamples to the Loss View: the view that if one is sad about some-thing one takes it to be a loss. I suggest an alternative and defend it.

Sadness; loss; badness; emotion; formal object.

Author

Maria Zanella

Affiliation

University of Warwick

Address

Department of Philosophy, Social Sciences Building, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom

E-mail

mariaz.correspondence@gmail.com

Received

4 July 2024

Accepted

4 January 2025

Publishers

Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences

APA

Zanella, M. (2025). Sadness is not about Loss. Organon F, 32(1), 42–49. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2025.32103

Chicago

Zanella, Maria. 2025. "Sadness is not about Loss." Organon F 32 (1): 42–49. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2025.32103

Harvard

Zanella, M. (2025). Sadness is not about Loss. Organon F, 32(1), pp. 42–49. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2025.32103

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