Shaw, A orcid.org/0000-0001-7559-3224 (2021) Do affective desires provide reasons for action? Ratio, 34 (2). pp. 147-157. ISSN 0034-0006
Abstract
This paper evaluates the claim that some desires provide reasons in virtue of their connection with conscious affective experiences like feelings of attraction or aversion. I clarify the nature of affective desires and several distinct ways in which affective desires might provide reasons. Against accounts proposed by Ruth Chang, Declan Smithies and Jeremy Weiss, I motivate doubts that it is the phenomenology of affective experiences that explains their normative or rational significance. I outline an alternative approach that centralises the function of such experiences.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Shaw, A. Do affective desires provide reasons for action?. Ratio. 2021; 34: 147– 157. https://doi.org/10.1111/rati.12294, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/rati.12294. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited. |
Keywords: | affect, attraction, aversion, desire, rationality, reasons |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 19 Oct 2022 14:25 |
Last Modified: | 28 Oct 2022 00:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/rati.12294 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:192262 |