Dear All
Bill Lycan from UNC is in town, and has offered to give at the
relatively last minute an interesting sounding talk according to which
desires aren't propositional attitudes.
It'll be tomorrow July 1, at 3.30 in The Refectory. Grad talk tba.
Do hope you can make it at this late notice; though Bill himself
realizes that attendance may not be vast at short notice just before
AAP.
See you there
-"Desire Considered as a Propositional Attitude."
Points out that neither of the two standard approaches to "the
propositional attitudes" (i.e., in practice, to beliefs) applies in
any straightforward way to desires. In particular, Dennett's
"intentional stance" epistemology breaks down in the case of desire,
and Fodor's "language of thought" model does not supply the right
notion of content for desires. Puzzles regarding desire content
are explored but not solved.
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