Desire, disagreement, and corporate mental states
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چکیده
I argue against group agent realism, or the view that groups have irreducible mental states. If agents states, as realists assume, then best realist explanation of corporate features only basic states with at most one motivational function each. But does not feature So lack How so? defend conditional an argument from disagreement. On cognitivist approaches to desire, desires both motivate and represent world. Yet such are subject a significant amount Reflection on folk-psychological properties desire belief suggest this disagreement is better explained by non-cognitivist approach where they do functions. claim committed least some Using example fire brigades, involves representational By modus tollens, corporations period.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['0020-174X', '1502-3923']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174x.2023.2203368