David Heering
Biographic Data
| ID | 4281722 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Heering |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Heering |
| SIGNATURE | HEERING D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Potsdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4943-6943 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Why and When is Pure Moral Motivation Defective
Agents sometimes have a final, de dicto desire to do what is right. They desire to do what is right for its own sake and under this description. These agents have pure moral motivation (PMM). It is often surmised that PMM is in some sense defective. Most famously, it has been suggested that PMM manifests a kind of moral fetishism. However, it also seems defective if an agent shows no concern whatsoever for moral rightness in their motivations. In…
Failure and Success in Agency
Agency often consists in performing actions and engaging in activities that are successful. We pour glasses, catch objects, carry things, recite poems, and play instruments. It has therefore seemed tempting in recent philosophical thinking to conceptualise the relationship between our agentive abilities and our successes as follows: (Success) S is exercising their ability to φ only if S successfully φ-s. This paper argues that (Success) is false …
Reasons-responsiveness, modality and rational blind spots
Actual Sequences, Frankfurt-Cases, and Non-accidentality
There are two tenets about free agency that have proven difficult to combine: (i) free agency is grounded in an agent’s possession or exercise of their reasons-responsiveness, (ii) only actual sequence features (not alternative possibilities) can ground free agency (conclusion of Frankfurt-Cases). This paper argues that (i) and (ii) can only be reconciled if we recognise that their clash is just the particular manifestation of a wider conflict be…
Failure and Success in Agency
Agency often consists in performing actions and engaging in activities that are successful. We pour glasses, catch objects, carry things, recite poems, and play instruments. It has therefore seemed tempting in recent philosophical thinking to conceptualise the relationship between our agentive abilities and our successes as follows: (Success) S is exercising their ability to φ only if S successfully φ-s. This paper argues that (Success) is false …
Actual Sequences, Frankfurt-Cases, and Non-accidentality
There are two tenets about free agency that have proven difficult to combine: (i) free agency is grounded in an agent’s possession or exercise of their reasons-responsiveness, (ii) only actual sequence features (not alternative possibilities) can ground free agency (conclusion of Frankfurt-Cases). This paper argues that (i) and (ii) can only be reconciled if we recognise that their clash is just the particular manifestation of a wider conflict be…
Reasons-responsiveness, modality and rational blind spots
Why and When is Pure Moral Motivation Defective
Agents sometimes have a final, de dicto desire to do what is right. They desire to do what is right for its own sake and under this description. These agents have pure moral motivation (PMM). It is often surmised that PMM is in some sense defective. Most famously, it has been suggested that PMM manifests a kind of moral fetishism. However, it also seems defective if an agent shows no concern whatsoever for moral rightness in their motivations. In…
Failure and Success in Agency
Agency often consists in performing actions and engaging in activities that are successful. We pour glasses, catch objects, carry things, recite poems, and play instruments. It has therefore seemed tempting in recent philosophical thinking to conceptualise the relationship between our agentive abilities and our successes as follows: (Success) S is exercising their ability to φ only if S successfully φ-s. This paper argues that (Success) is false …
Epistemology (4 works) · Free Will and Agency (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Agency (philosophy) (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (2 works) · Possession (linguistics) (2 works)