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    Emotions are feelings devoid of intentional objects

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    • 1.The impression that emotions have intentional objects is an illusion
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    • 2.The feelings we call emotions are typically caused by thoughts with an intentional structure
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    • 3.Emotions and intentional thoughts are associated in a 'composite' experience, making them appear unified
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    • 1.Brentano's thesis that all mental states are characterized by intentionality applies paradigmatically to emotions, not merely to accompanying thoughts.
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    • 2.Fear is always fear *of* something, grief is always grief *about* a loss—the object is constitutive of the emotion's identity, not merely causally associated.
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    • 3.If the intentional object were stripped away, what remains would not be a modified emotion but a wholly different state, such as undirected anxiety or malaise.
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    • 1.Goldie and Searle argue that emotions exhibit 'world-to-mind' direction of fit, meaning their intentional content is not adventitiously attached but internally structures the phenomenal character.
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    • 2.The composite view in Argument 3 cannot explain why replacing the intentional thought (e.g., changing what one believes caused the loss) systematically transforms the very qualitative feel of the emotion.
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    An alternative embraced by some contemporary feeling theorists is to argue that emotions are feelings devoid of any intentional objects. The contrary impression is an illusion, deriving from the fact that the feelings we call emotions are typically caused by thoughts with an intentional structure with which they are associated in a “composite” experience (Whiting 2011; Goldstein 2002). On this view, fear of the ice is a composite mental state consisting of an emotion—the objectless feeling of fe
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