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A Puzzle about Desire: The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Wanting

Description:

In this dissertation I pose a new puzzle about desire, one grounded in three plausible but jointly inconsistent propositions. According to the standard view in metaphysics, (1) all desires are dispositional states. Epistemologists, though, think that (2) we have privileged access to some of our desires. But (3) it is...

Keyword:

Self-Knowledge, Attitudes, Desire, Phenomenology, Introspection, and Dispositional States

Subject:

Philosophy

Creator:

Jared Thomas Peterson

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

10/22/2018

Date Modified:

10/22/2018

Date Created:

2017-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation