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    Emotions must be or involve cognitive evaluations of some kind

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    • 1.If emotions have intentionality, then there are internal standards of appropriateness according to which an emotion is appropriate just in case its formal object is instantiated
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    • 2.Feelings are not the kinds of things that can enter into conceptual relations with formal objects
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    • 3.To be properly embedded in conceptual relations with formal objects, emotions need to be or involve cognitive evaluations
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    • 1.William James argued that emotions just are the perception of bodily changes, with no evaluative cognition required for the emotion itself.
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    • 2.Feelings of bodily states can bear intentional relations to their causes through causal-tracking mechanisms without requiring conceptual mediation.
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    • 3.If non-conceptual bodily perception suffices for intentionality in emotion, then the argument from formal objects to cognitive evaluation fails.
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    • 1.Subcortical neural circuits (e.g., Ledoux's amygdala fear pathway) produce full emotional responses that bypass cortical cognitive evaluation entirely.
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    • 2.If a complete emotional response can be generated without cognitive evaluation, then cognitive evaluation is neither necessary nor constitutive of emotion.
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    The argument goes roughly like this. If emotions have intentionality, it follows that there are internal standards of appropriateness according to which an emotion is appropriate just in case its formal object is instantiated (Kenny 1963). But feelings are not the kinds of things that can enter into conceptual relations with formal objects. So, to be properly embedded in conceptual relations of this sort, emotions need to be or involve “cognitive evaluations” of some kind.
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