The structure of the chapter is roughly as follows. We begin by contrasting embodiment
theories with their main competitors—theories that emphasize the amodal, propositional …

Theories of embodied cognition hold that higher cognitive processes operate on perceptual
symbols and that concept use involves partial reactivations of the sensory-motor states that …

In this article, I introduce an emotion paradox: People believe that they know an emotion
when they see it, and as a consequence assume that emotions are discrete events that can …

The scientific study of emotion faces a potentially serious problem: after over a hundred
years of psychological study, we lack consensus regarding the very definition of emotion …

I'll take my charge as the discussant of chapters on cognition and affect in its broadest
sense. The collection of chapters in this volume represent (at least) two quite different …

1 attitude by attributing a belief or desire that would rationalize it, because the apparently
anomalous emotion is embedded in a system of other inappropriate attitudes or false beliefs …

Very recently I acquired a shiny new textbook on the psychology of the emotions. In the
chapter entitled,“What is an emotion?”, I was astonished, in the way that one might be …

This chapter reviews a number of studies that suggest that emotion knowledge is grounded
in the somatosensory and motor states to which emotions give rise. We suggest that the …

The emerging consensus in the philosophy of cognition is that cognition is situated, ie,
dependent upon or co-constituted by the body, the environment, and/or the embodied …

The Structure of Emotions argues that emotion concepts should have a much more
important role in the social and behavioural sciences than they now enjoy, and shows that …