In this book, Rebekka Hufendiek explores emotions as embodied, action-oriented representations, providing a non-cognitivist theory of emotions that accounts for their normative dimensions. Embodied Emotions will be of interest to philosophers working on emotions, embodied cognition and situated cognition.

1. Cognitivism and the Normative Dimension of Emotions 2. Appraising Arousal: Emotions and the Body 3. Embodiment and the Intentionality of Emotions 4. Embedded Emotions and the Ontology of Core Relational Themes 5. Loving is as Loving Does: Embodied Action-Oriented Representations

Rebekka Hufendiek is a postdoctoral candidate at the University of Basel. Her research focuses on philosophy of mind and psychology with a particular intereest in embodied cognition, emotion theories and naturalism. She has written several papers and reviews on embodiment, emotions, the modularity of mind and the vices and virtues of naturalist approaches to the mind.