Jeremy Pober

Biographic Data

ID5969500
NAMEJeremy Pober
GIVEN NAMESJeremy
FAMILY NAMEPober
SIGNATUREPOBER J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Lisbon
ORCID0000-0001-7049-1480
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • The Revised Reward Theory of Desire

    Open AccessJeremy PoberARTICLEErkenntnis2026

    I propose and articulate a novel theory of desire, called the Revised Reward Theory. As the name suggests, the theory is based—and expands—on Arpaly and Schroeder’s (2014) Reward Theory of Desire. The initial Reward Theory identifies desires with states of the reward learning system such that for an organism to desire some P is for its reward system to treat P as a reward upon receipt. The Revised Reward Theory identifies desires with a different…

  • What Emotions Really Are (In the Theory of Constructed Emotions)

    Open AccessJeremy PoberARTICLEPhilosophy of Science2018References: 34

    Recently, Lisa Feldman Barrett and colleagues have introduced the Theory of Constructed Emotions (TCE), in which emotions are constituted by a process of categorizing the self as being in an emotional state. The view, however, has several counterintuitive implications: for instance, a person can have multiple distinct emotions at once. Further, the TCE concludes that emotions are constitutively social phenomena. In this article, I explicate the T…