Backgrounding Desire

Philip Pettit; Michael Smith

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Backgrounding Desire

Philip Pettit, Michael Smith

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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?.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Mind, Morality, and Explanation
Subtitle of host publication	Selected Collaborations
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	269-294
Number of pages	26
ISBN (Electronic)	9781383039337
ISBN (Print)	9780199253364
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199253364.003.0014
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2024

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