Agnes Callard
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832 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2009
last heard Jun 2020
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So here's the idea.
Look.
He wanted to get on this train and he got on this train.
His desire was satisfied.
He may not have felt very good about it, but we said from the start that satisfaction wasn't going to be about how you feel.
So all that his desire being satisfied means is the desire came true.
The thought he had came true.
Now that can't be our whole story about the guy, because he's not very happy about it, right?
And that's because he had another desire, the desire to get on.
go to New York that isn't satisfied.
So on the second view
we wanna say is his desire was satisfied, but the person had two desires.
He had a desire to get on this train and he had a desire to go to New York, and the one is satisfied, the other isn't.
So I don't think either one's correct.
So let me say a little more about the two views and then I'll say why I think they're wrong.
What I'm gonna do is sort of push each of the views in an unappealing direction.
but a natural direction for that view to go.
So the first view, the answer no, right?
The desire wasn't satisfied, is also a view which tells us that we didn't really want to get on this train, right?
So I'm gonna call that view the eliminativist, because he eliminates the desire to get on the train.
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