BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260405T162754Z DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230112T150000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230112T170000 SUMMARY:Wanting at Will UID:20260406T001626Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Australia/Melbourne LOCATION:250 Victoria Parade\, East Melbourne\, Australia\, 3002 DESCRIPTION:

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.

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