Desire

IF 1.4 1区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY Philosophers' Imprint Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI:10.3998/phimp.2116
Kyle Blumberg, J. Hawthorne
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Abstract

In this paper, we present two puzzles involving desire reports concerning series of events. What does a person want to happen in the first event – is it the event with the highest expected return, or the event that is the initial part of the best series? We show that existing approaches fail to resolve the puzzles around this question and develop a novel account of our own. Our semantics is built around three ideas. First, we propose that desire ascriptions are evaluated relative to a contextually supplied set of propositions, or alternatives. The semantic value of an ascription ‘S wants p’ is determined by S's preference ordering over these alternatives. Second, we propose that desire reports carry a requirement to the effect that the prejacent of the ascription must be suitably related to the background set of alternatives. Finally, we suggest that desire reports carry a dominance condition concerning the subject's ranking of the alternatives. Overall, we argue that our theory provides us with an elegant resolution of our puzzles, and yields a promising approach to desire.
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欲望
在本文中,我们提出了两个谜题,涉及一系列事件的欲望报告。一个人希望在第一个事件中发生什么?是期望回报最高的事件,还是最好系列的最初部分?我们表明,现有的方法无法解决围绕这个问题的困惑,也无法发展出我们自己的新颖叙述。我们的语义是围绕三个想法构建的。首先,我们提出,欲望归属是相对于上下文提供的命题集或备选方案来评估的。一个归属“S想要p”的语义值是由S对这些备选方案的偏好排序决定的。其次,我们提出愿望报告有一个要求,即归属的前提必须与备选方案的背景集适当相关。最后,我们建议欲望报告带有关于受试者对备选方案的排名的支配条件。总的来说,我们认为我们的理论为我们提供了一个优雅的谜题解决方案,并产生了一种很有前途的欲望方法。
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7.10%
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27
审稿时长
20 weeks
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