%0 Journal Article
%T Author Reply: We Don¡¯t Yet Know What Emotions Are (But Need to Develop the Methods to Find Out)
%A Daniel Andler
%A Ralph Adolphs
%J Emotion Review
%@ 1754-0747
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1754073918772092
%X Our approach to emotion emphasized three key ingredients. (a) We do not yet have a mature science of emotion, or even a consensus view¡ªin this respect we are more hesitant than Sander, Grandjean, and Scherer (henceforth ¡°SGS¡±) or Luiz Pessoa (henceforth ¡°LP¡±). Relatedly, a science of emotion needs to be highly interdisciplinary, including ecology, psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy. (b) We recommend a functionalist view that brackets conscious experiences and that essentially treats emotions as latent variables inferred from a number of measures. (c) But our version of functionalism is not definitional or ontological. It is resolutely methodological, in good part because it is too early to attempt definitions
%K emotion
%K feelings
%K functionalism
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1754073918772092