Emotions, appraisals and embodied appraisals

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esse Prinz’s recent perceptual theory of emotion honors the centralJamesian claim that the emotion follows, and is actually caused by, the syndromeof bodily changes which are typical of emotional reactions. Prinz also thinks thatemotions essentially involve appraisals of the object of emotion but, in the lightof certain arguments supporting the central Jamesian claim, he concludes thatthese appraisals must be in any case embodied. In this paper, I will first raisethree concerns with Prinz’s view and, second, I will present an alternative, themultidimensional appraisal theory of emotion, and argue that this alternative canaccommodate successfully the Jamesian arguments without any need to honor thecentral Jamesian claim ​
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