PREPRINT VERSION PLEASE FIND THE PUBLISHED VERSION HERE: https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783030156664#aboutBook From Philosophy of Emotion to Epistemology: Some Questions About the Epistemic Relevance of Emotions Laura Candiotto In Candiotto, L. (2019). The Value of Emotions for Knowledge, pp. 3-24. Palgrave Macmillan. This volume consists of twelve full-length articles by leading and up-and-coming academics on the exciting topic of philosophy of emotions. This very multidisciplinary field of research focuses on the different roles that emotions play in our life. Significant work has been done in the area of moral philosophy, for example highlighting the weight of emotions and other affective states in nurturing our moral concerns, leading our decision-making, and also disclosing what it is that we care about most.1 The aim of this volume is to analyse the role of emotions in knowledge acquisition, in its many and different processes and functions, especially focusing at the intersection between epistemology and the philosophy of mind and cognitive science. In fact, if we easily recognise the value of emotions in our moral life, it is difficult to not think that emotions impair knowledge, intrude on reasoning, and express our 1For a comprehensive overview of the most relevant work that has been done in this field in the last decades, see the second and the third volume of Ben-Ze’ev and Krebs (2018).