Abstract

Abstract Chapter 17 introduces Moorean desires as the syntactic counterparts of Moorean beliefs, and distinguishes a Moorean desire from a ‘Frankfurt’ conjunction of desires. The chapter then discusses putative examples of rational and irrational desires, suggesting that there are norms of rational desire. It is shown that there are rational as well as irrational Moorean desires. Those that are irrational are also absurd, although there seem to be absurd desires that are not irrational. The chapter concludes that certain norms of rational desire should be rejected.

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