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These papers gave impetus to what became the cognitivist mainstream in philosophy of emotion, some fairly wide variations going from C.D. Broad (1971 [1954])'s "affect-laden judgments" to the "strong desires" theory advocated by Joel Marks (1982).
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What about the desire-to-desire theory?
The Barren Tautology Argument is therefore impotent against the desire-to-desire theory.
The experience machine is one motivation for the adoption of a desire theory.
We might perhaps interpret the simple desire theory as a theory of well-being-at-at-a-particular-time.
The simplest version of a desire theory one might call the present desire theory, according to which someone is made better off to the extent that their current desires are fulfilled.
But if they were correct, the OQA would indeed dispose of the desire-to-desire theory along with kindred theories such as Hume's.
The desire-to-desire theory is the last in a sequence of three attempts to provide a foundation for ethics by defining "good" in terms of desire.
It seems very likely that what prompted Moore to invent his philosophical weapon of mass destruction was the desire-to-desire theory of Bertrand Russell.
If I am right, Russell's desire-to-desire theory posed a problem for Moore which it took him five years to solve.
To create the desired theory requires to setup a certain structure of which is to play the role of the time scale generalizing and.
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