{"pk":27883,"title":"Emotion as a Form of Perception: Why William James was not a Jamesian","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Two main views have informed the literature on the psy-chology of emotion in the past few decades. On one side,cognitivists identify emotions with processes such as judg-ments, evaluations and appraisals. On the other side, advo-cates of non-cognitive approaches leave the “intellectual” as-pects of emotional experience out of the emotion itself, in-stead identifying emotions with embodied processes involv-ing physiological changes. Virtually everyone on either sideof the cognitive/non-cognitive divide identify William James’view, also known as the James-Lange theory, fully on the non-cognitivist side. But this is a mistake. Re-interpreting James’writings in its scientific context, this paper argues that he actu-ally rejected the cognitive/non-cognitive divide, such that hisview of emotions did not fit either side—that is, James was nota “Jamesian” in the sense the term is used in the literature.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Emotion"},{"word":"cognitivism"},{"word":"James-Lange theory"},{"word":"perception"},{"word":"Sensation"},{"word":"physiological changes"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2kn6g303","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Guilherme","middle_name":"","last_name":"Sanches de Oliveira","name_suffix":"","institution":"U of Cincinnati","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27883/galley/17521/download/"}]}