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Besires and the Motivation Debate
Author(s) -
ZANGWILL NICK
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
theoria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1755-2567
pISSN - 0040-5825
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-2567.2008.00001.x
Subject(s) - internalism and externalism , irrationality , morality , argument (complex analysis) , epistemology , psychology , social psychology , philosophy , rationality , chemistry , biochemistry
This article addresses a number of difficulties and complications in the standard formulations of motivational internalism, and considers what besires might be in the light of those difficulties and complications. Two notions of besire are then distinguished, before considering how different kinds of motivational internalism and different conceptions of besire fare against the significant argument that we may be indifferent to the demands of morality without irrationality.