However, the strength of an agent's desire to perform some desirable act does not settle the truth of claims about whether she would have performed the act in counterfactual circumstances.
He begins by asking his reader to imagine two individuals who each perform the same kind of morally desirable act: they each give $100 to UNICEF, and they each do so with the aim of helping disadvantaged children.
One does not have to go to Waziristan to find Americans who speak of putting gays to death as a desirable and worthy act, invoking the highest of moral authority - Jesus Christ.
In some circumstances, it may be desirable to act as if the researchers had no intention of collecting the missing data points [ 8].
Business is not F1, so being number two is desirable and can act as a credible launch pad to the top position.
However, use of an ACT regimen for IPT may not be desirable if an ACT is used as first-line treatment of uncomplicated malaria, as is currently the case in most of sub-Saharan Africa, including Uganda.
PLACL/SF/AV nanofibers have more desirable properties to act as flexible cell supporting scaffolds compared to PLACL for the repair of myocardial infarction (MI).
The key, of course, is to make sure the giveaways are desirable enough to act as an incentive, not just the books and movies that need an extra push.
In summary, the problem faced by our subjects was to infer what they were most likely to do, if they were to end up in desirable states and then act on that inference.
A virtue either motivates a person to act in desirable ways (as benevolence moves a person to act for another's good), or it enables a person to act in desirable ways (as courage enables a person to act well).
