What is it to want something? Or, as philosophers might ask, what is a desire? The idea that
we explain and evaluate actions with essential reference to what people want is compelling …

I begin the paper by outlining one classic argument for the guise of the good: that we must
think that desires represent their objects favourably in order to explain why they can make …

Alex Gregory (2017a; 2017b; 2018; 2021) provides an ingenious, systematic defence of the
view that desires are a species of belief about normative reasons. This view explains how …

It is not uncommon to think that having a desire involves taking its object to be good in some
sense. This idea has been developed in two directions: either toward a view that …

ABSTRACT I argue against group agent realism, or the view that groups have irreducible
mental states. If group agents have irreducible mental states, as realists assume, then the …

This thesis presents an account of the connection between desires, knowledge of practical
reasons, and knowledge of value. 1 Desires seem to play an important role in the acquisition …

In this project I investigate and develop a theory of desire primarily focused on the
metaphysics of desire. Since my theory of desire is an evaluative theory, I address …

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Many of our desires spontaneously arise within us without prior decision or deliberation.
Their presence exerts an in uence on us, shaping our perspective and informing our …