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desire
Also known as: desires
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Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 13, 2017 6 facts
claimSecond-order volitions, as defined by Harry Frankfurt, involve wanting a certain desire to be one's will, meaning the subject wants that desire to move them to action.
perspectiveChristine Korsgaard, drawing on a Kantian view, distinguishes between animal action and autonomous agency by arguing that autonomous agency involves counting a desire as a reason for action, whereas animal action involves simply having the most powerful desire result in action.
quoteHilary Kornblith argues regarding responsiveness to reason: "While such responsiveness may be achieved, at times, by way of reflection on one’s beliefs and desires, it does not require any such reflection."
quoteChristine Korsgaard writes: "When you deliberate it is as if there were something over and above all your desires, something which is you, and which chooses which desire to act upon."
claimRobert B. Pippin analyzed G.W.F. Hegel's views on self-consciousness, desire, and death in his 2010 book 'Hegel on Self-Consciousness: Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit'.
quoteto see rational responses to pain as pain behavior is to see them as motivated by such states of the creature as the belief that it is in pain, the desire to be rid of the pain, and the belief that such and such a course of behaviour will achieve that result.
Complexity and the Evolution of Consciousness | Biological Theory link.springer.com Sep 14, 2022 2 facts
referenceKim Sterelny (2003) attempted to develop a natural history of human agency and cognitive states resembling folk-psychological states of belief and desire, though the author notes that this work paid comparatively little attention to the evolution of sentience.
claimUnderstanding the evolution of sentience requires focusing on the evolution of action-related capacities, specifically choices, desires, motivation, and preferences.
Self-Consciousness - Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science oecs.mit.edu Jul 24, 2024 1 fact
claimTheory of Mind (ToM) is based on mental states such as beliefs, desires, hopes, and fears, and posits that humans understand and predict the behavior of other social beings by attributing these mental states to them and utilizing implicit knowledge of how these states interact to generate behavior.
Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu Jun 18, 2004 1 fact
claimQualitative character is not restricted to sensory states but is typically considered an aspect of experiential states in general, including experienced thoughts or desires, according to Siewert (1998).
Sources of Knowledge: Rationalism, Empiricism, and the Kantian ... press.rebus.community 1 fact
claimDavid Hume asserts that humans are not born with innate ideas, though he agrees that tendencies to avoid pain or seek passions and desires are innate.
Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu Aug 19, 2003 1 fact
claimMental properties, which include consciousness (such as perceptual and emotional experience) and intentionality (such as beliefs and desires), are private to the subject and involve a form of privileged access that no one else has to the physical.