ABSTRACT
Emotions are ways of knowing what matters in a situation that tightly connect cognition to evaluation and action. Emotions focus our attention on what’s significant in the light of our aims and values, and they dispose us to act. Emotions are thus practical knowledge par excellence. As such, they are indispensable, at least for our kind of agency. To put all of this in a simple slogan: emotions are our way of getting our act together.
