Meanwhile, bodily patterns/feelings can be generated in several ways. E.g. by unconscious appraisals, by depression, by drugs, by a series of emotions that leave a lingering trace. Given this, we can classify moods into a few sub-types. 4/6
But most of all, we can refute the silly claim philosophers sometimes make that moods lack content. All moods present the overall condition or affordance pattern of your body. In this way we maintain the most important claim about the mind- that all mental states have content. 5/6
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I outline all this in 'The double intentionality of emotional experience' (EJP, 2017) philpapers.org/rec/COCTDI-2 and elaborate it a bit more in ch4 of The Emotional Mind: A control theory of affective states. 6/6
Tom Cochrane, The Double Intentionality of Emotional Experience - PhilPapers
I argue that while the feeling of bodily responses is not necessary to emotion, these feelings contribute significant meaningful content to everyday emotional experience. Emotional bodily feelings rep...
