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Emotion as a form of perception: why William James was not a Jamesian

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dc.contributor.authorSanches de Oliveira, Guilherme
dc.contributor.departmentFilosofía
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-23T12:42:18Z
dc.date.available2026-02-23T12:42:18Z
dc.date.copyright© 2018 by the author(s)
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractTwo main views have informed the literature on the psychology of emotion in the past few decades. On one side, cognitivists identify emotions with processes such as judgments, evaluations and appraisals. On the other side, advocates of non-cognitive approaches leave the “intellectual” aspects of emotional experience out of the emotion itself, instead identifying emotions with embodied processes involving physiological changes. Virtually everyone on either side of the cognitive/non-cognitive divide identify William James’ view, also known as the James-Lange theory, fully on the noncognitivist side. But this is a mistake. Re-interpreting James’ writings in its scientific context, this paper argues that he actually rejected the cognitive/non-cognitive divide, such that his view of emotions did not fit either side—that is, James was not a “Jamesian” in the sense the term is used in the literature.
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dc.identifier.citationSanches de Oliveira, G. (2018). Emotion as a Form of Perception: Why William James was not a Jamesian. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 40. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2kn6g303
dc.identifier.eissn1069-7977
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10201/210841
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherCognitive Science Society
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dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
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dc.subjectEmotion
dc.subjectCognitivism
dc.subjectJames-Lange theory
dc.subjectPerception
dc.subjectSensation
dc.subjectPhysiological changes
dc.subject.odsNo relacionado con ningún objetivo de desarrollo sostenible
dc.titleEmotion as a form of perception: why William James was not a Jamesian
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