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Intentionality :: Propositional Attitudes :: Desires

2.1a The Language of Thought [87]
2.1b The Intentional Stance [54]
2.1c Eliminativism [88]
2.1d Beliefs [118]
2.1e Desires [67]
2.1f Thinking [17]
2.1g Propositional Attitudes, General [65]

Arlo-Costa, Horacio; Collins, John M. & Levi, Isaac (1995). Desire-as-belief implies opinionation or indifference. Analysis 55 (1):2-5. (Google)

Bratman, Michael E. (2003). A desire of one's own. Journal of Philosophy 100 (5):221-42. (Cited by 3 | Google)

Bratman, Michael E. (1990). Dretske's desires. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 50 (4):795-800. (Cited by 3 | Google | More links)

Bricke, John (2000). Desires, passions, and evaluations. Southwest Philosophy Review 16 (1):59-65. (Cited by 1 | Google)

Brook, Andrew (2006). Desire, reward, feeling: Commentary on Schroeder's Three Faces of Desire. Dialogue 45 (1):157-164. (Google)

Butler, Keith (1992). The physiology of desire. Journal of Mind and Behavior 13 (1):69-88. (Cited by 2 | Google | Annotation)

Chan, David K. (2004). Are there extrinsic desires? NoÃ»s 38 (2):326-50. (Cited by 2 | Google | More links)

Cheney, J. E. (1978). The intentionality of desire and the intentions of people. Mind 87 (October):517-532. (Cited by 1 | Google | More links)

Collins, D. (1988). Belief, desire, and revision. Mind 97 (July):333-42. (Cited by 20 | Google | More links)

Daveney, T. F. (1961). Wanting. Philosophical Quarterly 11 (April):135-144. (Cited by 3 | Google | More links)

Davis, Wayne A. (1986). Two senses of desire. In J. Marks (ed.), The Ways of Desire. Precedent. (Cited by 12 | Google)

De Sousa, Ronald (2006). Dust, ashes, and vice: On Tim Schroeder's theory of desire. Dialogue 45 (1):139-150. (Google)

Dretske, Fred (1966). Ziring ziderata. Mind 75 (April):211-223. (Google | More links)

Dwyer, Daniel (2006). A phenomenology of cognitive desire. Idealistic Studies 36 (1):47-60. (Google)

Falk, Arthur E. (2004). Desire and Belief. University Press of America. (Google | More links)

Framarin, Christopher G. (2006). The desire you are required to get rid of: A functionalist analysis of desire in the bhagavadgita. Philosophy East and West 56 (4):604-+. (Cited by 1 | Google | More links)

Fuery, P. (1995). Theories of Desire. Melbourne University Press. (Cited by 17 | Google)

Gert, Joshua (2005). Breaking the law of desire. Erkenntnis 62 (3):295-319. (Google | More links)

Graff, Delia (2003). Desires, scope, and tense. Philosophical Perspectives 17:141-163. (Cited by 2 | Google | More links)

Hajek, A. & Pettit, Philip (2004). Desire beyond belief. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 82 (1):77-92. (Google)

Heathwood, Chris (2006). Desire satisfactionism and hedonism. Philosophical Studies 128 (3):539-563. (Cited by 5 | Google | More links)

Hill, Christopher S. (manuscript). Comments on Timothy Schroeder's Three Faces of Desire. (Google)

Hoffman, Christopher A. (1993). Desires and the desirable. Philosophical Forum 25 (1):19-32. (Google)

Hubin, Donald C. (2003). Desires, whims, and values. Journal of Ethics 7 (3):315-35. (Google | More links)

Hulse, Donovan; Read, Cynthia & Schroeder, Timothy (2004). The impossibility of conscious desire. American Philosophical Quarterly 41 (1):73-80. (Cited by 1 | Google)

Humberstone, I. L. (1987). Wanting as believing. Canadian Journal of Philosophy 17 (March):49-62. (Cited by 6 | Google)

Humberstone, I. L. (1990). Wanting, getting, having. Philosophical Papers (August) 99 (August):99-118. (Cited by 6 | Google)

Kvart, Igal (1986). Beliefs and believing. Theoria 52:129-45. (Cited by 2 | Google)

Larson, E. (1994). Needs versus desires. Dialogue 37 (1):1-10. (Google)

Latham, Noa (2006). Three compatible theories of desire. Dialogue 45 (1):131-138. (Google)

Lewis, David (1988). Desire as belief. Mind 97 (418):323-32. (Cited by 26 | Google | More links)

Lewis, David (1996). Desire as belief II. Mind 105 (418):303-13. (Cited by 19 | Google | More links)

Lumer, Christoph (1997). The content of originally intrinsic desires and of intrinsic motivation. Acta Analytica 18 (18):107-121. (Cited by 2 | Google)

Marks, J. (1986). On the need for theory of desire. In J. Marks (ed.), The Ways of Desire. Precedent. (Google)

Marks, J. (ed.) (1986). The Ways of Desire: New Essays in Philosophical Psychology on the Concept of Wanting. Precedent. (Cited by 5 | Google)

McInerney, Peter K. (2004). Strength of desire. American Philosophical Quarterly 41 (4):299-310. (Google)

Mele, Alfred R. (1990). Irresistible desires. NoÃ»s 24 (3):455-72. (Cited by 4 | Google | More links)

Meyers, Chris (2005). Wants and desires: A critique of conativist theory of motivation. Journal of Philosophical Research 30:357-370. (Google)

Morillo, Carolyn R. (1992). Reward event systems: Reconceptualizing the explanatory roles of motivation, desire and pleasure. Philosophical Psychology 5 (1):7-32. (Cited by 2 | Google)

Nolan, Daniel (2006). Selfless desires. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. (Cited by 1 | Google | More links)

Pettit, Philip & Price, Huw (1989). Bare functional desire. Analysis 49 (October):162-69. (Cited by 7 | Google)

Pojman, Louis P. (1985). Believing and willing. Canadian Journal of Philosophy 15 (March):37-56. (Cited by 11 | Google)

Price, Huw (1989). Defending desire-as-belief. Mind 98 (January):119-27. (Cited by 16 | Google | More links)

Ross, Peter W. (2002). Explaining motivated desires. Topoi 21 (1-2):199-207. (Cited by 4 | Google | More links)

Roth, Abraham S. (2005). The mysteries of desire: A discussion. Philosophical Studies 123 (3):273-293. (Google | More links)

Russell, John M. (1984). Desires don't cause actions. Journal of Mind and Behavior 84:1-10. (Google)

Sayre-McCord, Geoffrey & Smith, Michael A. (manuscript). Desires and beliefs of one's own. (Google)

Schroeder, Timothy (2006). Desire. Philosophy Compass 1 (6):631–639. (Google)

Schroeder, Timothy (2006). Precis of Three Faces of Desire. Dialogue 45 (1):125-130. (Google)

Schroeder, Timothy (2006). Reply to critics. Dialogue 45 (1):165-174. (Google)

Schroeder, Timothy (2004). Three Faces of Desire. Oxford University Press. (Cited by 15 | Google | More links)

Schueler, G. F. (1995). Desire: Its Role in Practical Reason and the Explanation of Action. MIT Press. (Cited by 26 | Google | More links)

Schueler, G. F. (1991). Pro-attitudes and direction of fit. Mind 100 (400):277-81. (Cited by 9 | Google | More links)

Schwitzgebel, Eric (1999). Representation and desire: A philosophical error with consequences for theory-of-mind research. Philosophical Psychology 12 (2):157-180. (Cited by 5 | Google | More links)

Sidgwick, H. (1892). The feeling-tone of desire and aversion. Mind 1 (1):94-101. (Google | More links)

Silverman, Hugh J. (2000). Philosophy and Desire. Routledge. (Cited by 6 | Google | More links)

Smith, Michael A. (1988). Reason and desire. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 88:243-58. (Cited by 3 | Google)

Smythe, Thomas W. (1972). Unconscious desires and the meaning of 'desire'. The Monist 56 (July):413-425. (Cited by 2 | Google)

Stampe, Dennis W. (1994). Desire. In Samuel D. Guttenplan (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind. Blackwell. (Cited by 1 | Google)

Stampe, Dennis W. (1990). Desires as reasons--discussion notes on Fred Dretske's explaining behavior: Reasons in a world of causes. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 50 (4):787-793. (Cited by 5 | Google | More links)

Stampe, Dennis W. (1986). Defining desire. In J. Marks (ed.), The Ways of Desire. Precedent. (Cited by 5 | Google)

Stampe, Dennis W. (1987). The authority of desire. Philosophical Review 96 (July):335-81. (Cited by 23 | Google | More links)

Teichmann, Roger (1992). Whyte on the individuation of desires. Analysis 52 (2):103-7. (Cited by 1 | Google)

Thagard, Paul R. (2006). Desires are not propositional attitudes. Dialogue 45 (1):151-156. (Cited by 1 | Google | More links)

Vadas, Melinda (1984). Affective and nonaffective desire. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 45 (December):273-80. (Google)

Whyte, J. T. (1992). Weak-kneed desires. Analysis 52 (2):107-11. (Cited by 1 | Google)

Woodfield, Andrew (1982). Desire, intentional content and teleological explanation. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 82:69-88. (Google)

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2.1c	Eliminativism [88]

2.1d	Beliefs [118]

2.1e	Desires [67]

2.1f	Thinking [17]

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