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SUMMARY:Wanting at Will
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LOCATION:250 Victoria Parade\, East Melbourne\, Australia\, 3002
DESCRIPTION:<p>This talk defends the view that we (often) exercise direct voluntaristic control over our desires. Somewhat more concretely\, I will argue that\, in an extremely broad sense of 'valuable'\, one can rationally prefer A to B even while knowing that A and B are equally valuable\, and that one can rationally fail to prefer A to B even while knowing that A is more valuable than B. In these sorts of cases\, one's preferences (and thus one's desires) are a matter of one's choosing. I will then explore some consequences of these claims for questions concerning functionalist theories of mind\, the rationality of akrasia\, and the subject matter of decision theory.</p>
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