Knowledge and its Limits starts its exposition of the knowledge-first approach to
epistemology with a structural analogy between knowledge and action as the two key …

An argument that representational decision making is more cognitively efficient, allowing an
organism to adjust more easily to changes in the environment. Many organisms (including …

What is it to want something? Or, as philosophers might ask, what is a desire? The idea that
we explain and evaluate actions with essential reference to what people want is compelling …

It has been argued by several philosophers that a morally motivated rational agent who has
to make decisions under conditions of moral uncertainty ought to maximize expected moral …

On the Humean picture of rational agency, an agent is a system that has beliefs and desires
about the world and acts in pursuit of its desires in accordance with its beliefs. 1 Beliefs and …

Many philosophers in the field of meta-ethics believe that rational degrees of confidence in
moral judgments should have a probabilistic structure, in the same way as do rational …

I begin the paper by outlining one classic argument for the guise of the good: that we must
think that desires represent their objects favourably in order to explain why they can make …

Abstract According to the Group Mind Hypothesis, a group can have beliefs over and above
the beliefs of the individual members of the group. Some maintain that there can be group …

Abstract The Desire-as-Belief thesis (DAB) states that any rational person desires a
proposition exactly to the degree that she believes or expects the proposition to be good …

Does the desirability of a proposition depend on whether it is true? Not according to the
Invariance assumption, held by several notable philosophers. The Invariance assumption …