Desiderative Lockeanism

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Abstract

According to the Desiderative Lockean Thesis, there are necessary and sufficient conditions, stated in the terms of decision theory, for when one is truly said to want. I advance a new Desiderative Lockean view. My view is distinctive in being doubly context-sensitive. Want ascriptions exhibit a remarkable context-sensitivity: what a person is truly said to want varies by context in a variety of ways, a fact that has not been fully appreciated. Others Desiderative Lockeans attempt to capture the context-sensitivity in want ascriptions by positing a single context-sensitive parameter. I posit two. Only with a doubly context-sensitive view can we explain a range of facts that go unexplained by all other Desiderative Lockean views.
Original languageEnglish
JournalAustralasian Journal of Philosophy
Publication statusAccepted/In press - 27 Nov 2023

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • desire ascriptions
  • desire
  • attitude ascriptions
  • decision theory
  • context-sensitivity
  • Lockean Thesis

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