Solomon was an American professor of philosophy and business at the University of Texas, where he taught for more than 30 years. His work was intended for a broader audience. The findings suggested emotions are rational and purposive rather than irrational and disruptive, emotion are very much like actions, and that we choose an emotion just as we choose a course of action, his notion is that feelings are inessential to emotion since feelings fail to capture the component of emotion. In contrast, Solomon criticized James with the idea of emotion being a sensation and that bodily response will produce a specific emotion, he suggested that emotions are purposive and that emotions are judgments, which can be a part of our control but not completely.