Three Faces of Desire

Timothy Schroeder (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2004
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-517237-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Timothy Schroeder grew up on the Canadian prairies, an environment that afforded him plenty of time for philosophical speculation. He received his B.A. from the University of Lethbridge and his Ph.D. from Stanford University, and is now Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manitoba.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.9.2004
Reihe/Serie	Philosophy of Mind Series
Zusatzinfo	2 line illus.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 242 mm
Gewicht	494 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
ISBN-10	0-19-517237-X / 019517237X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-517237-9 / 9780195172379
Zustand	Neuware