In praise of desire / Nomy Arpaly, Timothy Schroeder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arpaly, Nomy.

Contributor:

Schroeder, Timothy.

Series:

Oxford moral theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Desire (Philosophy).

Ethics.

Virtue.

Virtues.

Physical Description:

vii, 316 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Contents:

1.1 Moral Psychology 1

1.2 Reason and Appetite 2

1.3 Intrinsic, Instrumental, and Realizer Desires 6

1.4 The Many Guises of the Good 14

1.5 The Work to Be Done 16

Part I Reason

1 Deliberation 19

1.1 The Nature of Deliberation 21

1.2 The Rationality of Acts of Deliberation 26

1.3 Deliberation and Regress 29

1.4 Other Objections 33

1.5 Deliberative Exceptionalism 36

1.6 Is There an Ambiguity? 37

1.7 If Not Deliberation, Then Representation? 40

1.8 Thinking and Acting for Reasons without Deliberation 42

2 How Deliberation Works 43

2.1 The Role of Deliberation 43

2.2 How Deliberation Works 47

2.3 The Moral of the Story 50

3 Thinking and Acting for Reasons 53

3.1 Objective Reasons and Rationalizing Reasons 53

3.2 Physical Properties, Contents, and Reasons 56

3.3 Because of Reasons 61

3.4 Reasons, Causes, and Mountain Climbers 67

3.5 Acting for Bad Reasons 72

3.6 Thinking and Acting for Multiple Reasons and Nonreasons 75

3.7 Habit and Inaction 80

3.8 Acting for Moral Reasons 86

Part II Desire

4 Love and Care 93

4.1 Love 93

4.2 Care 104

5 What Desires Are Not 110

5.1 Action Is Not the Essence of Desire 111

5.2 Feeling Is Not the Essence of Desire 116

6 What Desires Are 126

6.1 The Reward and Punishment Systems 127

6.2 The Reward System Causes What Desires Cause 137

6.3 Intrinsic Desires are a Natural Kind 143

6.4 Solutions and Promissory Notes 146

Part III Virtue

7 Credit and Blame 159

7.1 Attributability and Accountability 159

7.2 Good Will and Ill Will 162

7.3 A Theory of Praise-and Blameworthiness 169

7.4 Side Constraints 171

7.5 Conceptualization 176

7.6 Too Much Credit, Too Much Blame 187

7.7 Partial Good and 111 Will 194

8 Virtue 200

8.1 A Theory of Virtue 202

8.2 The Theory Applied 203

8.3 Virtues and Their Effects 206

8.4 Virtue and Involuntary Attitudes: Two Alternative Views 215

8.5 Virtuous Irrationality 219

8.6 The Unity of the Virtues 221

9 Virtue and Cognition 225

9.1 Familiar Cognitive Effects of Desire 226

9.2 The Effects of Good Will on Cognition 231

9.3 The Vice of Being Prejudiced 233

9.4 The Vice of Being Close-Minded 239

9.5 The Virtue of Being Open-Minded 241

9.6 Modesty and Immodesty 245

9.7 Vicious Dreams 250

Part IV Puzzles

10 Inner Struggle 259

10.1 Akrasia 259

10.2 The Experience of Inner Struggle 261

10.3 Inner Struggle Explained 265

11 Addiction 274

11.1 The Puzzle 274

11.2 The Science of Addiction 276

11.3 The Philosophy of Addiction 285

11.4 The Blameworthiness of Addicts 287

11.5 Addiction in Moral Psychology 289.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-308) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780199348169

0199348162

OCLC:

855209113