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    Emotions must be cognitive evaluations of some kind rather than mere feelings

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    • 1.Emotions are object-directed and endowed with intentionality
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    • 2.In order to account for the intentionality of emotions, emotions must be cognitive evaluations rather than feelings
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    • 1.Infants and non-human animals exhibit clearly emotional responses—fear, grief, joy—without the conceptual apparatus required for cognitive evaluation.
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    • 2.Any theory that cannot account for pre-cognitive and cross-species emotional phenomena fails as a general theory of emotion.
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    • 3.William James's somatic theory and Damasio's somatic marker hypothesis show that felt bodily changes are constitutive of emotion, not mere epiphenomena.
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    • 1.Bodily feelings can themselves carry intentional content without involving cognitive evaluation, as Prinz argues via 'embodied appraisals'.
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    • 2.If feelings can be directed at objects through their causal history and functional role, cognitivism loses its explanatory monopoly on intentionality.
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    The emergence of the constitutive approach in philosophy in the middle of the twentieth century can be traced to a pair of articles by C.D. Broad (1954) and Errol Bedford (1957), and a book by Anthony Kenny (1963) (see also Pitcher 1965; Thalberg 1964). These authors were not the first to emphasize that emotions are object-directed or endowed with intentionality—Brentano (1874 [1995]) had already done so with inspiration from various medieval authors (King 2010). But these mid-twentieth century
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