# Getting Bodily Feelings Into Emotional Experience in the Right Way Deonna **Keywords:** action readiness, attitude, bodily feelings, emotion, James, Schachter and Singer, value **Abstract:** We argue that the main objections against two central tenets of a Jamesian account of the emotions, that is, that (a) different types of emotions are associated with specific types of bodily feelings (specificity), and that (b) emotions are constituted by patterns of bodily feeling (constitution), do not succeed. In the first part, we argue that several reasons adduced against specificity, including one inspired by Schachter and Singer’s work, are unconvincing. In the second part, we argue that constitution, too, can withstand most of the objections raised against it, including the objection that bodily feelings cannot account for the outwardlooking and evaluative nature of emotions. In both sections, we argue that the kinds of felt bodily changes posited by a Jamesian account of emotions are best understood in terms of felt states of action readiness. **Authors:** [[Getting Bodily Feelings Into Emotional]]