Three faces of desire
Desires lead to actions, influence feelings, and determine what counts as a reward. Recent empirical evidence shows that these three aspects of desire stem from a common biological origin. Informed by contemporary science as much as by the philosophical tradition, Three Faces of Desire reveals this...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press
2004.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Philosophy of mind series.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798391406719 |
| Summary: | Desires lead to actions, influence feelings, and determine what counts as a reward. Recent empirical evidence shows that these three aspects of desire stem from a common biological origin. Informed by contemporary science as much as by the philosophical tradition, Three Faces of Desire reveals this common foundation and builds a striking new philosophical theory of desire that puts desire's neglected face--reward--at its core. Schroeder delves into the way that actions and feelings are produced in the brain, arguing that a distinctive system is responsible for promoting action, on the one hand, and causing feelings of pleasure and displeasure, on the other. This system, the brain's reward system, is the causal origin of both action and feeling, and is the key to understanding the nature of desire. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 213 p. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-207) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780195343625 9780190291501 9781280560477 9781423756439 9780199849987 |
