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How Is Wishful Seeing Like Wishful Thinking?
- Source :
- Siegel, Susanna. 2016. How is wishful seeing like wishful thinking? Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 92 (1)
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
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Abstract
- This paper makes the case that when wishful thinking ill-founds belief, the belief depends on the desire in ways can be recapitulated at the level of perceptual experience. The relevant kinds of desires include motivations, hopes, preferences, and goals. I distinguish between two modes of dependence of belief on desire in wishful thinking: selective or inquiry-related, and responsive or evidence-related. I offers a theory of basing on which beliefs are badly-based on desires, due to patterns of dependence that can found in the relationship between experiences and desires as well. This conclusion brings us a large part of the way to the conclusion that like beliefs, experiences can be ill-founded by depending on a desire.<br />Philosophy
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00318205 and 19331592
- Database :
- Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH)
- Journal :
- Siegel, Susanna. 2016. How is wishful seeing like wishful thinking? Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 92 (1)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edshld.1.13456932
- Document Type :
- Journal Article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12273