Backgrounding Desire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10693885 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip Pettit (0000-0002-0355-3896), Michael Smith (0000-0002-7649-353X) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 565 |
| Publication date | 1990-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2185617 |
| OpenAlex | W4231649696 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 59 |
Analytic philosophy · Contemporary philosophy · Epistemology · Early Modern Women Writers · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Philosophy · Theological Perspectives and Practices
Value Based on Preferences
Motivational internalism
Non‐Teleological Explanations of Actions
Postscript
Teleological Explanations of Actions
The Inherently Normative Nature of Action Explanations
Social Theory
The Theory of Motivating States
Purposes, Causes, and Reasons Explanations
For Holism, Against Atomism
For Individualism, Against Collectivism
Thought
Acting for a Good Reason
Explanations in Terms of the Agent's Reasoning
Reasons and Desires
Political Theory
Reasons and Beliefs
As I Believe
Intentionality
Consequential Matters
Reasons for Action
How Many Explanations?
Motivation and agency
Value, Reality, and Desire
Reasons for Actions and Desires
Empathy, Motivating Reasons, and Morally Worthy Action
Foregrounding Desire
What is a reason to act
Love, Reasons, and Desire
Why Reasons Skepticism is Not Self‐Defeating
Nikāmakarma
Practical Reality
The Common Mind
Reasons and Purposes
Practical Deliberation is Normative
How to decide what to do
Don’t Just Trust Your Gut
Agency and aesthetic identity
Good and Bad Desires
On Two Interpretations of the Desire-Satisfaction Theory of Prudential Value
Imaginative Motivation
Attitudinal Theories of Pleasure and De Re Desires
The Retreat of Reason
Deliberative Agency, Self‐Control, and the Divided Mind
Regimenting Reasons
A Distinction in Value
When Minds Converse
Duty, Desire and the Good Person
New Shmagency Worries
Republicanism
Hopes and Dreams 1
What Is Wrong with Lying
The Oxford Handbook of Rationality
Agreement Matters
The distinction between desires and intentions
The presumption of assurance
Love and the Value of a Life
Hope and Its Place in Mind
Market socialism, labour market domination, and the state as employer of last resort
| Unique citing works | 59 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,97 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2025 (30) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 59 |