The Nature of Desire

Federico Lauria is a post-doctoral researcher at the Philosophy Department and Swiss Center for Affective Sciences of the University of Geneva and Visiting Scholar at New York University. He was recently Associate Researcher at Columbia University. His work is at the intersection of philosophy of mind, ethics, and aesthetics. More specifically, he is interested in issues in philosophy of desire and emotions, such as self-deception, musical emotions, and epistemic emotions, among others.Julien A. Deonna is associate professor in philosophy at the University of Geneva and project leader at CISA, the Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences. His research interests are in the philosophy of mind, in particular the philosophy of emotions, moral emotions and moral psychology. In addition to many articles in the area, he is the co-author of In Defense of Shame (OUP, 2011) and The Emotions: a Philosophical Introduction (Routledge, 2012). He is the co-director of Thumos, the Genevan philosophy research group on emotions, values and norms.

• ContributorsAcknowledgements Julien Deonna & Federico Lauria, Introduction: Reconsidering some Dogmas about Desire I. Conceptions of DesireEvaluative Views: Desire and the Good 1. Graham Oddie, Desire and the Good: In Search of the Right Fit2. Daniel Friedrich, Desire, Mental Force and Desirous ExperienceMotivational Views: Desire and Action 3. Sabine A. Döring & Bahadir Eker, Desires without Guises: Why we Need Not Value what we Want4. Maria Alvarez, Desires, Dispositions and the Explanation of ActionThe Deontic Alternative: Desires, Norms and Reasons 5. Federico Lauria, The "Guise of the Ought to Be". A Deontic View of the Intentionality of Desire6. Olivier Massin, Desire, Values and Norms7. Alex Gregory, Might Desires be Beliefs about Normative Reasons for Action?Empirical Perspectives: Desire, the Reward System and Learning 8. Timothy Schroeder, Empirical Evidence against a Cognitivist Theory of Desire and Action9. Peter Railton, Learning as an Inherent Dynamic of Belief and Desire II. Desiderative Puzzles10. David Wall, Desiderative Inconsistency, Moore's Paradox, and Norms of Desire11. Fred Schueler, Deliberation and Desire12. Lauren Ashwell, Introspection and the Nature of Desire

This anthology of essays marks a significant contribution to the literature on the under appreciated topic of desire... The editors bring together a collection of essays covering a wide range of perspectives on the notion of desire and present these as potentially competing approaches to this subject.