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12Desire satisfaction and its discontentsTheoria: Revista de TeorĂa, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 38 (2): 173-192. 2023.According to a well-established view of desire satisfaction, a desire that p is satisfied iff p obtains. Call this the 'standard view'. The standard view is purely semantic, which means the satisfaction condition of desires is placed in the truth of the embedded proposition that indicates the content of the desire. This paper aims to defend the standard view against two frequently discussed problems: the problem of underspecification and desires conditional on their own persistence. The former h…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Desire and Motivation |
Philosophy of Action |
Philosophy of Mind |
Depression |
Consciousness of Action |