This paper first demonstrates that recognition of the diversity of ways that emotional responses modulate ongoing attention generates what I call the puzzle of emotional attention, which turns on the fact that distinct emotions (e.g., fear, happiness, disgust, admiration etc.) have different attentional profiles. The puzzle concerns why this is the case, such that a solution consists in explaining why distinct emotions have the distinct attentional profiles they do. It then provides an account of the functional roles of different emotions, as tied to their evaluative themes, which explains and further elucidates the distinctive attentional profiles of different emotions, so solving the puzzle of emotional attention. Following that, it outlines how such attentional profiles are reflected in the character of emotional experience and its attentional phenomenology. The resulting picture is a more detailed account of the connections between emotion and attention than is currently on offer in the philosophical literature.

本文首先表明，对情绪反应调节持续注意力的多种方式的认识产生了我所说的情绪注意力之谜，这开启了这样一个事实，即不同的情绪（例如，恐惧、快乐、厌恶、钦佩等）具有不同的注意力特征。这个谜题涉及为什么会这样，因此解决方案在于解释为什么不同的情绪具有它们所具有的不同的注意力特征。然后，它提供了与评价主题相关的不同情绪的功能作用的描述，解释并进一步阐明了不同情绪的独特注意概况，从而解决了情绪注意的难题。之后，它概述了这种注意概况如何反映在情感体验的特征及其注意现象学中。由此产生的图片比目前在哲学文献中提供的更详细地描述了情感和注意力之间的联系。