In a Fitter Direction: Moving Beyond the Direction of Fit Picture of Belief and Desire

Autor:	John Robert Milliken
Rok vydání:	2008
Předmět:	Philosophy Moral philosophy Philosophy of medicine Direction of fit Metaphor media_common.quotation_subject Ontology Contrast (statistics) Political philosophy Sociology Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Epistemology media_common
Zdroj:	Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. 11:563-571
ISSN:	1572-8447 1386-2820
DOI:	10.1007/s10677-008-9117-7
Popis:	Those working within the tradition of Humean psychology tend to mark a clear distinction between beliefs and desires. One prominent way of elucidating this distinction is to describe them as having different "directions of fit" with respect to the world. After first giving a brief overview of the various attempts to carry out this strategy along with their flaws, I argue that the direction of fit metaphor is misleading and ought to be abandoned. It fails to take into account the actual complexity of the roles played by belief and desire and forces us to look for a single, fundamental contrast between these two that is unlikely to be found.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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