Backgrounding Desire
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Pettit, Philip
Smith, Michael
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Oxford University Press
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Granted that desire is always present in the genesis of human action, is it something on the presence of which the agent always reflects? I may act on a belief without coming to recognize that I have the belief. Can I act on a desire without recognizing that I have the desire? In particular, can the desire have a motivational presence in my decision00ADmaking, figuring in the background, as it were, without appearing in the content of my deliberation, in the foreground?.
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Mind, Morality, and Explanation: Selected Collaborations
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