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Alex Gregory

Desire as Belief

A Study of Desire, Motivation, and Rationality

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A popular model of human action treats it as universally explicable by appeal to what we want. A related view evaluates our actions as rational or otherwise by appeal to what we want. However, these dominant views sit in tension with two other common sense ideas. First, that our normative beliefs - such as our beliefs about what we ought to do - sometimes explain our actions. Second, that those beliefs are crucial for determining whether our actions arerational. To try and resolve these tensions, this book defends 'desire-as-belief', the view that desires are just a special subset of our normative beliefs. This view entitles us to accept orth… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-258750-3
  • EAN: 9780192587503
  • Produktnummer: 36651537
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 224 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 644 KB

Über den Autor


Alex Gregory is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Southampton. He has published most frequently on the nature of desire, but also on other issues such as the nature of normative reasons, the nature of disability, and questions about wellbeing.

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