On Humeís account of motivation, beliefs and desires are very di§erent kinds of propositional attitudes. Beliefs are cognitive attitudes, desires emotive ones. An agentís belief in a proposition captures the weight he or she assigns to this proposition in his or her cognitive representation of the world. An agentís desire for a proposition captures the degree to which he or she prefers its trut...

In several senses, Hall cuts a better figure here than in Charlotte Hall's Memoirs. Nevertheless, the remnants of the earlier "spouseography" are often still visible, despite Manuel's apparent awareness of the historiographic implications of using Charlotte's work as a primary source (p. 23). Some instances are trivial. For example, Hall's trip to the Scottish Highlands is alluded to by Manuel ...

abstract introduction: sexuality constitutes an important part of women's life. healthy and proper sexual functioning is one of the signs of physical and mental health. the aim of this study was to identify effect of training on sexual health of women with reduced sexual desire.   methods: this study was a randomized clinical trial. the participants were 80 married women at reproductive age who...

background : childbearing is a cause of concern for women living with hiv. to improve reproductive right of wom-en with hiv and prevent the spread of hiv; it is needed to understand fertility experiences of infected women with hiv. the aim of this study was to explore fertility intentions and experiences of hiv-infected women in iran. methods : totally, 15 in–depth interviews were conducted wit...

David Lewis [1988, 1996] canvases an anti-Humean thesis about mental states: that the rational agent desires something to the extent that he or she believes it to be good. Lewis offers and refutes a decision-theoretic formulation of it, the ‘Desire-as-Belief Thesis’. Other authors have since added further negative results in the spirit of Lewis’. We explore ways of being antiHumean that evade a...

Are you saying that religion is also something that geneticists should be studying? No, not at all. Every individual has to find their own accommodation between their spirituality and their scientific knowledge. For me personally, there is no need for a god, and a secular world view is much richer and more hopeful, but obviously there are millions of Christians and Jews and Hindus and others wh...

For the purposes of this paper, subjectivism about well-being holds that φ is intrinsically good for x if and only if, and to the extent that, φ is valued, under the proper conditions, by x.1 The natural contrast view, objectivism, holds that there are facts about any given person’s well-being that are independent of that person’s evaluative perspective. For subjectivism, unlike objectivism, a ...

INTRODUCTION Sexual desire is controlled by brain systems involved in sexual excitation and inhibition. Hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) may result from hypofunctional excitation, hyperfunctional inhibition, or some mix of the two. AIM This study aimed to identify neurochemical and neuroanatomical systems involved in sexual excitation and inhibition, their role during normal, and hypo...

In the BDI paradigm, much attention was devoted to beliefs, intentions, choice and commitment, whereas desire has traditionally been seen as given. However, desire is the key connection to the agents’ creator, and the ultimate source of behaviour. Desires are allowed to be incoherent, irrational, or at least a-rational. Agent environments establish a motivational context for agents to act upon....