Abstract

TORICES VIDAL, José Ramón. Emotion and Perception: An Ecological Aproach. Anal. filos. [online]. 2017, vol.37, n.1, pp.5-26. ISSN 1851-9636.

The aim of this paper is to sketch a theory of emotion. Our thesis is that emotional experience is a type of perceptual experience. Agents perceive emotionally the world whose objects and situations present to them as being relevant to their well-being and they do it by means of practical relations towards their environment. Our proposal attempts to avoid, in this way, the problem of some classical theories of emotions such as James's theory of emotions as feelings and cognitivist theories of emotions (Deigh 2004). Moreover, contrary to what we call priopioceptive theories of emotions (Damasio 1994, Prinz 2004), our theory is an ecological approach, according to which the world belongs to the conditions of individuation of emotional episodes.

Keywords : Emotion; Perception; Action; Affordances; Core Affect.

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