Some analyses of pro-attitudes
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According to the pragmatic or functional conception of attitudes, we can say that John desires A iff John behaves such that he tends to bring it about that the actual world is an A-world, if his beliefs are true. This puts certain constraints on how to analyse desire attributions, but it leaves open a number of alternative analyses. Several alternatives will be discussed and compared in this paper. It will be suggested that for the semantic analysis of desire attributions it is useful to look at recent analyses of belief revision and theories of action and rational choice.
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