Desire as belief : a study of desire, motivation, and rationality / Alex Gregory.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gregory, Alex, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Desire (Philosophy).

Belief and doubt.

Normativity (Ethics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 223 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Study of desire, motivation, and rationality

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

What is a desire? Our wants must often compete with our beliefs about what we ought to do. This book defends "desire as belief", a view in which desires are a special subset of our normative beliefs, and in which we can accept orthodox models of human motivation while also making room for normative beliefs to play a role in our decision-making.

Contents:

What is desire-as

belief?

Desire and motivation

Normative belief and motivation

Desire as rationality

Irrationality

The guise of the normative

Desire and feeling

Uncertainty and reasoning

Representing reasons

Desire and reasons

Conclusion.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-188273-9

0-19-258750-1

OCLC:

1243261323