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How to keep up good appearances: Desire, imagination, and the good
Author(s) -
Tooming Uku
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
european journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.42
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1468-0378
pISSN - 0966-8373
DOI - 10.1111/ejop.12722
Subject(s) - object (grammar) , psychology , perception , epistemology , social psychology , aesthetics , cognitive psychology , philosophy , linguistics
It is not uncommon to think that having a desire involves taking its object to be good in some sense. This idea has been developed in two directions: either toward a view that understands the positive evaluation in terms of a judgment or belief or a view according to which the relevant evaluation is perception‐like. In this article, I defend a novel proposal that takes the positive evaluation of the object of desire to be a kind of imagining.