Emotions as modulators of desire

• Main Author: YIP, Brandon
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Emotion; desire; motivation; action; Motivational theory of action; Humeanism; belief-desire psychology; Humean theory of motivation; action tendency; Philosophy; Philosophy of Mind
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/4134; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5393/viewcontent/Yip_Emotions_modulators_desire_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We commonly appeal to emotions to explain human behaviour: we seek comfort out of grief, we threaten someone in anger and we hide in fear. According to the standard Humean analysis, intentional action is always explained with reference to a belief-desire pair. According to recent consensus, however,...