Peter Carruthers ( Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy

Gebundenes Buch

Human Motives

Hedonism, Altruism, and the Science of Affect

Beschreibung

Human Motives shows how the sciences of decision and affect support a form motivational hedonism (the theory that everything we do is done in pursuit of pleasure and to avoid pain and displeasure) while making room for both genuine altruism and intrinsic motives of duty.

Autor

Peter Carruthers is Distinguished University Professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland, where he has worked since 2001. He previously held appointments at a number of universities in the UK. He has published widely across many areas of philosophy of mind and cognitive science, including work on cognitive architecture, the role of language in thought, self-knowledge, consciousness, the mentality of animals, and meta-cognition. His most recent books are The Centered Mind: What the Science of Working Memory Shows Us About the Nature of Human Thought (Oxford, 2015) and Human and Animal Minds: The Consciousness Questions Laid to Rest (Oxford, 2019).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 147mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9780198906131
• ISBN-10: 0198906137
• Artikelnr.: 68572142