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Emotions and their various cognitive and bodily facets have always posed a challenge to theorists. This challenge is encapsulated in the question of how one can, within a coherent theory, provide an explanation that accounts for both the cognitive dimensions—stemming from normativity—and the bodily aspect. Cognitivism regards emotions solely as judgments and evaluations of oneself and the environment, thereby neglecting their bodily dimension. Similarly, feeling theories of emotion, such as William James’s theory, also eliminate the cognitive dimension, rendering them somewhat reductionist. Within the framework of the new research program of embodied cognition, arguments have been advanced...