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    It is not the case that Emotions must be or involve cognitive evaluations of some kind

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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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    • 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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