ABSTRACT

This chapter explains "What is the relation between emotional experience and its behavioural expression". On the side of behavioural expression, it focuses on such things as cowering in fear, or shaking a fist or thumping the table in anger. The chapter pursues the relation between this experience and expression in a somewhat roundabout manner. It develops and defends a parallel response to the problem of other minds, as this applies to certain basic directed emotions. the individuation of a person's emotional condition from the subjective experiential perspective. Reference to the appropriate expressive behaviour is essential to the identification of the way in which various emotional experiences present their worldly objects. The whole point of SES, on the other hand, is to register the respect in which the perceptual perspective cannot possibly be characterized other than as the presentation to a person of a mind-independent world. Reference to mind-independent things, as such, is essential to the individuation of perceptual experiences.