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PHILOSOPHY (L30)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)SP2020
L30 Phil 430Topics in Ethics: Desire3.0 Units
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01M-W----1:00P-2:20PSomers Family / 251 HazlettSee Instructor19120
Desc:Folk psychology posits a distinction, employed in much contemporary philosophy, between two basic propositional attitudes: belief and desire. With this distinction in mind, in this course we will be taking a close look at the nature of desire and related issues in ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of mind, and epistemology. Topics to be covered will include the belief-desire model of intentional action and the Humean theory of motivation, direction of fit, dispositional/functional accounts of desire, the guise of the good thesis, and interpretationism about intentionality.
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