Bence Nanay

'Desires don’t have desire-like direction of fit’

Tuesday, November 16 at 6.30pm (CET). 

 

The MAP (Master in Philosophy) at USI (Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano) is pleased to announce that after the great success of the online events of last spring, the Lugano Philosophy Colloquia series is back for the fall semester. The first talk of the Lugano Philosophy Colloquia for fall 2021 is titled 'Desires don’t have desire-like direction of fit’. 

The guest speaker is: 

Bence Nanay (University of Antwerp)

The talk is chaired by: 

Paolo Natali (University of Geneva and USI)

Date: 

Tuesday, November 16 at 6.30pm (CET)

Location: 

The talk is a hybrid event: it will be possible to attend in person for the philosophy students in Lugano, but it will be also held on Zoom and streamed on USI Master in Philosophy Facebook page.

To partecipate: 

Please write an email to amm.map@usi.ch or send a message to our Facebook page www.facebook.com/usimap.

                       

The abstract of the talk: 

Desires are widely, in fact, universally, taken to have, well, desire-like direction of fit. The aim of this paper is to argue that – at least on one important understanding of what direction of fit is – this is not so. I give a two-step argument: The goal state of desires is represented by mental imagery and if the goal state of desires is represented by mental imagery, then desires don’t have world-to-mind (or prescriptive) intrinsic direction of fit. In other words, desires don’t have desire-like direction of fit.

 

More information available on the Facebook event page: https://facebook.com/events/s/desires-dont-have-desire-like-/2819012381654550/

The talk is part of the Lugano Philosophy Colloquia - a series of events organised by:

- Master in Philosophy at USI

- Ratio – Philosophical Association

- Istituto di Studi Filosofici, Lugano

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We look forward to your presence!

Thank you.