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    Affect, Representation, and the Standards of Practical Reason
    Dissertation, University of Michigan. 2016.
    How does human agency relate to the good? According to a thesis with ancient pedigree, the connection is very tight. Known as “the Guise of the Good” (GG), it states that human action or motivation to act, of some special kind or another, is only possible insofar as the agent performs or is motivated to perform the act because of the good she sees in so acting. But how might agents see their actions as good? Recent research in moral psychology, the philosophy of mind, and the cognitive sciences …Read more