This study investigates English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers’ needs and desires with regard to the in-service training courses (ITCs) programs in Marand, East Azerbaijan province, Iran. 21 EFL teachers at both junior (N=10) and senior high schools (N=11) participated in this study. The data concerning the participants’ mentioned needs and desires were gathered by means of a structured i...

T humans have certain desires is a fundamental truth of our nature and a central premise of economic theory. One may disagree about what those desires comprise or whether such desires are morally good or even beneficial for our interests, but one cannot doubt the existence of preferences across choices and alternatives. Economists, rational choice theorists, and many political scientists operat...

Generally, men in sub-Saharan Africa make reproductive decisions that affect their partners. We examined the predictors of fertility desires among married across three age cohorts: 20–35 years, 36–50 year, and 51–59 years. Using 2014 Ghana Demographic Health Survey dataset, we conducted ANOVA multivariate binary logistic regressions on 1431 monogamous aged 20–59 Two indicators desire are constr...

Here, we define a framework where defeasible argumentation is used for reasoning about beliefs, desires and intentions. A dialectical filtering process is introduced to obtain a subset of the agent’s desires containing only those that are achievable in the current situation. Different agents types can be defined in the framework affecting the way in which current desires

Internalists and externalists fundamentally disagree about how moral judgments motivate. think that morally good people should have de re desires to do right things, agents who are motivated by the dicto desire whatever is fetishists. In contrast, accept can both relevant desires. My aim provide an argument for internalism, which goes beyond context in sides currently debate I will first introd...