Human Motives
Hedonism, Altruism, and the Science of Affect
- Hardcover
234 pages
- Release Date
18 April 2024
Summary
Motivational hedonism (often called psychological hedonism) claims that everything we do is done in pursuit of pleasure (in the widest sense) and to avoid pain and displeasure (again, in the widest sense). Although perennially attractive, many philosophers and experimental psychologists have claimed to refute it. Human Motives shows how decision-science and the recent science of affect can be used to construct a form of motivational hedonism that evades all previous critiques. On thi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198906131 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198906137 |
| Author: | Peter Carruthers |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 234 |
| Release Date: | 18 April 2024 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 160mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Peter Carruthers
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).
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