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Desire as Belief - A Study of Desire, Motivation, and Rationality (Hardcover)
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Desire as Belief - A Study of Desire, Motivation, and Rationality (Hardcover)
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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 are
rational. 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 orthodox
models of human motivation and rationality that explain those
things with reference to desire, while also making room for our
normative beliefs to play a role in those domains. This view also
tells us to diverge from the orthodox view on which desires
themselves can never be right or wrong. Rather, according to
desire-as-belief, our desires can themselves be assessed for their
accuracy, and they are wrong when they misrepresent normative
features of the world. Hume says that it is not contrary to reason
to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of
your finger, but he is wrong: it is foolish to have this
preference, and this is so because this preference misrepresents
the relative worth of these things. This book mounts an engaging
and comprehensive defence of these ideas.
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