# Mind-Body Theories and the Emotions **Opening (not a real abstract):** Problems for an Ontology of Emotions Emotions are reckoned to have a variety of characteristics (Goldie 2000). Among other things we feel them, and our feelings have intentionality or directedness: I am afraid of something; I am angry about something; I long for something. But what exactly are the states that have these characteristics? When an individual experiences an emotion, what is that emotional state? Is it a physical occurrence or not? If it is, how is the psychological description of it related to the physical description of it? Does ‘anger’ always refer to the same type of physical state, or can it refer to different types of physical states under different circumstances? Is it possible to give an exhaustive account of the emotion in purely physical terms? If not, if the experience is not a physical occurrence, how is it related to the physical **Authors:** [[William Jaworski]]