Philosopher's Digest » Motivation http://www.philosophersdigest.com Timely Reviews of Current Philosophy Articles Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:07:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 “Imagination and Other Scripts” Eric Funkhouser and Shannon Spaulding http://www.philosophersdigest.com/philosophical-studies/imagination-and-other-scripts-eric-funkhouser-and-shannon-spaulding http://www.philosophersdigest.com/philosophical-studies/imagination-and-other-scripts-eric-funkhouser-and-shannon-spaulding#comments Mon, 11 May 2009 12:00:59 +0000 Amy Kind http://www.philosophersdigest.com/?p=603 Main authors discussed: Gregory Currie, Ian Ravenscroft, David Velleman, Shaun Nichols, Stephen Stich

Some philosophers (e.g., Currie and Ravenscroft, Velleman) have recently argued that pretense provides a counterexample to the standard Humean Theory of Motivation (HTM). Pretense behavior is a novel kind of…

]]> http://www.philosophersdigest.com/philosophical-studies/imagination-and-other-scripts-eric-funkhouser-and-shannon-spaulding/feed 0 “The Humean Theory of Motivation Rejected” G. F. Schueler http://www.philosophersdigest.com/philphen/%e2%80%9cthe-humean-theory-of-motivation-rejected%e2%80%9d-g-f-schueler http://www.philosophersdigest.com/philphen/%e2%80%9cthe-humean-theory-of-motivation-rejected%e2%80%9d-g-f-schueler#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:42:19 +0000 Scott Wilson http://www.philosophersdigest.com/?p=426

Main authors discussed: Michael Smith, Donald Davidson, Phillip Pettit, Thomas Nagel

Schueler presents a dilemma for the defender of the Humean theory of motivation. First, let’s define the theory. Schueler focuses on the theory as one that explains why a person…

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