ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I consider Franz Brentano’s theory of emotion. I focus on three of its central claims: (1) Emotions are sui generis intentional phenomena, (2) emotions are essentially evaluative phenomena, and (3) emotions provide the basis of an epistemology of objective value. (2) is intimately connected to (1) and (3) in that the evaluative nature of emotions not only accounts for their sui generis status but also provides the basis for Brentano’s epistemology of value.
