Embodied Appraisals and Non-emotional States

• Authors: Juraj Hvorecký
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We present the embodied appraisal theory of emotions and show how it handles a variety of intuitions we hold about affective states. While appreciating its integrative potential, we point out possible difficulties that it might face from further investigation of embodied non-emotional states. Following Darwin and his work on the expression of emotions, we suggest that some obviously non-emotional mental states comply with the criteria set by Prinz's theory. Therefore it is doubtful whether his definition of emotions is correct and whether perceptual approaches are useful in explicating the nature of emotion types.

Keywords

EN

embodied appraisal; non-emotional mental states; valence; emotion

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 20
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 215-223

Dates

published

2010-09-01

online

2010-09-22

Contributors

author

Juraj Hvorecký

• Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Jilská 1, 101 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10023-010-0022-z