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- Title
What Emotions Really Are (In the Theory of Constructed Emotions).
- Authors
Pober, Jeremy
- Abstract
Recently, Lisa Feldman Barrett and colleagues have introduced the Theory of Constructed Emotions (TCE), in which emotions are constituted by a process of categorizing the self as being in an emotional state. The view, however, has several counterintuitive implications: for instance, a person can have multiple distinct emotions at once. Further, the TCE concludes that emotions are constitutively social phenomena. In this article, I explicate the TCE*, which, while substantially similar to the TCE, makes several distinct claims aimed at avoiding the counterintuitive implications plaguing the TCE. Further, because of the changes that comprise the TCE*, emotions are not constitutively social phenomena.
- Subjects
EMOTIONS; PHILOSOPHY of emotions; EMOTIONS -- Social aspects; CAUSATION (Philosophy); NEUROSCIENCES; HYPOTHESIS
- Publication
Philosophy of Science, 2018, Vol 85, Issue 4, p640
- ISSN
0031-8248
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1086/699158