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Humean Nature: How desire explains action, thought, and feeling

Autor Neil Sinhababu
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 mar 2017
Neil Sinhababu defends the Humean Theory of Motivation, according to which desire drives all human action and practical reasoning. Desire motivates us to pursue its object, makes thoughts of its object pleasant or unpleasant, focuses attention on its object, and is amplified by vivid representations of its object. These aspects of desire explain a vast range of psychological phenomena - why motivation often accompanies moral belief, how intentions shape our planning, how we exercise willpower, what it is to be a human self, how we express our emotions in action, why we procrastinate, and what we daydream about. Some philosophers regard such phenomena as troublesome for the Humean Theory, but the properties of desire help Humeans provide simpler and better explanations of these phenomena than their opponents can. The success of the Humean Theory in explaining a wide range of folk-psychological and experimental data, including those that its opponents cite in counterexamples, suggest that it is true. And the Humean Theory has revolutionary consequences for ethics, suggesting that moral judgments are beliefs about what feelings like guilt, admiration, and hope accurately represent in objective reality.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198783893
ISBN-10: 0198783892
Pagini: 226
Dimensiuni: 160 x 241 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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Neil Sinhababu's brilliant book is a thoroughgoing defense of the Humean Theory Motivation.... Humean Nature is written in a clear and personable style. Its ingenious arguments will prove invaluable for scholars and students andfor those simply seeking an overview of the current state of discussion in action theory.
Humean Nature is a valuable contribution to the current literature on human motivation. ... its reading is suggested to all experts in the field, who will find here compelling arguments in defense of the Humean Theory of Motivation and thoughtful responses to its opponents. And it is likewise recommended to the novice reader, such as the advanced undergraduate or graduate student, which will find in this book a comprehensive discussion of the literature made accessible through a clear and mostly pleasant writing style.

Notă biografică

Neil Sinhababu is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore. His previous work defending the Humean Theory of Motivation has appeared in Philosophical Review and Noûs. He has also published on philosophy of mind, ethics, epistemology, Nietzsche, and how to have romantic relationships with people in other possible worlds. He received his Ph.D from the University of Texas at Austin and his B.A. from Harvard University.