Authors: Ittay NissanRozen
Publish Date: 2015/01/24
Volume: 192, Issue: 8, Pages: 2535-2556
Abstract
A triviality result for what Lewis Mind 105 303–313 1996 called “the Desire by Necessity Thesis” and Broome Mind 1002 265–267 1991 called “the Desire as Expectation Thesis” is presented The result shows that this thesis and three other reasonable conditions can be jointly satisfied only in trivial cases Some metaethical implications of the result are discussed The discussion also highlights several issues regarding Lewis’ original triviality result for “the Desire as Belief Thesis” that have not been properly understood in the literature
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