How verbal reports of desire may mislead
How verbal reports of desire may mislead
We each have many desires, and we sometimes report the existence of such desires. I might tell you that I don’t want any dessert, that she does want to marry you, or that my parents want to buy a house. In this paper I highlight two noteworthy features of assertions about our desires, and then highlight two ways in which they can mislead us into drawing unwarranted conclusions about desire. Some of our assertions may indicate that we are sometimes motivated independently of desire, and other assertions may suggest that there are vast divergences between our normative judgements and our desires. But I suggest that some such assertions are, in this respect, potentially misleading, and have in fact misled authors such as Russ Shafer-Landau (2003), Jack Woods (2014), and Tim Scanlon (1998).
Gregory, Alexander
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Gregory, Alexander
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Gregory, Alexander
(2017)
How verbal reports of desire may mislead.
Thought.
(doi:10.1002/tht3.257).
Abstract
We each have many desires, and we sometimes report the existence of such desires. I might tell you that I don’t want any dessert, that she does want to marry you, or that my parents want to buy a house. In this paper I highlight two noteworthy features of assertions about our desires, and then highlight two ways in which they can mislead us into drawing unwarranted conclusions about desire. Some of our assertions may indicate that we are sometimes motivated independently of desire, and other assertions may suggest that there are vast divergences between our normative judgements and our desires. But I suggest that some such assertions are, in this respect, potentially misleading, and have in fact misled authors such as Russ Shafer-Landau (2003), Jack Woods (2014), and Tim Scanlon (1998).
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