The Nature of Desire
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (661 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199370966 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is the co-director of Thumos, the Genevan philosophy research group on emotions, values and norms.. His work is at the intersection of philosophy of mind, ethics, and aesthetics. About the AuthorFederico Lauria is a post-doctoral researcher at the Philosophy Department and Swiss Center for Affective Sciences of the University of Geneva and Visiting Scholar at New York University. He was recently Associate Researcher at Columbia University. Deonna is associate professor in philosophy at t
His research interests are in the philosophy of mind, in particular the philosophy of emotions, moral emotions and moral psychology. Deonna is associate professor in philosophy at the University of Geneva and project leader at CISA, the Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences. He is the co-director of Thumos, the Genevan philosophy research group on emotions, values and norms.. In addition to
What are desires? Many believe that desire is a motivational state: desiring is being disposed to act. For example, why are inconsistent desires problematic? What is desire's role in practical deliberation? How do we know what we want? This volume will contribute to the emergence of a fruitful debate on a neglected, albeit crucial, dimension of the mind.. According to a second influential approach, however, desire is first and foremost an evaluation: desiring is representing something as good. Which understanding of desire is more accurate? Is the guise of the good even right to assume? Should we adopt an alternative picture that emphasizes desire's deontic nature? What do neuroscientific studies suggest?Essays in the first section of the volume are devoted to these questions, and to the puzzle of desire's essence. After all, we seem to desire things under the guise of the good. Desires matter. This conception aligns with the functionalist approach to desire and the standard account of desire's role in explai