The bodily experience of emotions in relation to the surrounding environment.

What is it about?

Many authors have argued for a "4E" theory (embodied in the living organism, enacted, embedded in sociocultural contexts, extended into the environment) of affect or feeling. However, the authors who have made such arguments, while they have done well to show how this paradigm applies to moods and other dispersed kinds of feeling, have not given a systematic account of how this 4E theory relates to episodic emotions. This essay attempts to fill this gap by introducing conceptual tools that provide resources for a systematic 4E account of episodic emotions.

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Why is it important?

This essay shows how episodic emotions are just internal experiences but systemically alter the possibilities that the environment offers and changes the structure of attention and perception.