Agnes Callard
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first heard Jul 2009
last heard Jun 2020
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The question I want to ask about that theory is, if your desires are so separate from one another, why do they look so connected?
Think about the case where he's running to catch the train, okay? 'Cause he thinks it's the train to New York, but it's not, it's the train to Chicago, and he finds out a minute before he gets on the train that it's the train to Chicago.
Suddenly his desire to catch this train disappears as if by magic.
I think what we want to say is, well, it disappears because it's intimately connected to his desire to go to New York.
That is, he didn't just have a desire to catch this train all by itself.
He had a desire to catch this train which was somehow bound up with his desire to go to New York.
But the separatist has to say, no, those desires aren't bound up with one another.
They're totally separate from one another.
And I want to say on that kind of
atoms of desires all pushing us in different directions and all unconnected from one another.
And that's a very
unappealing picture of human psychology.
It doesn't look like that's the way human beings think about the world and about what they want.
So that's to say why that view is unappealing.
Neither of these are a refutation of that view.
It could be that human psychology is weird in one of these two ways.
But that at least gives us an inkling as to why you why you might want to look in another direction.
If it's alright, I wanna try to think about what's wrong with those two views in another way, which will also lead the way into my view.
I wanna imagine a bunch of characters and what I wanna do is think about how they differ from the ordinary case of desire.
So let me give you the a kind of list of the first bunch of characters and then there's gonna be a list of the second bunch of characters.
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