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Moors’ Eliminativism Cross-Examined: Why Emotions Are Not Goal-Directed Cycles

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Emotion Review

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Abstract

Emotion Review, Volume 18, Issue 2, Page 80-84, April 2026.
Moors’ eliminativist theory of emotions aims to show that understanding emotional behavior as goal-directed behavior when the goals are high value explains all that is worth explaining about behavior without invoking the concept of emotion. I argue that ...