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Two kinds of curiosityPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 108 (3): 811-832. 2023.Leading philosophical models of curiosity represent it as a desiderative attitude whose content is a question, and which is satisfied by knowledge of the answer to that question. I argue that these models do not capture the distinctive character of a form of curiosity that I call 'erotic curiosity'. Erotic curiosity addresses itself not to a question but to an object whose significance for the inquirer is affective as well as epistemic. This form of curiosity is best understood by analogy to ero…Read more
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University of MiamiDoctoral student
Coral Gables-Miami, Florida, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Action |