Humean Theory of Motivation

The view that motivating reasons consist of a desire and a means-end belief; desires and beliefs are distinct existences.

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Once More, Without Feeling (Mogensen 2025)
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The working paper itself, presenting a pluralist theory of moral standing and arguing that autonomy can ground moral standing without welfare subjectivity.

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The Humean theory of motivation is compatible with the possibility of autonomous agents who lack affective states.claim0.882
Defense of premise 2 against Humean objections.
Causal Theories of Actionconcept0.728
Traditional mechanistic accounts (Danto, Chisholm, Goldman) that Juarrero critiques as resting on outdated Newtonian causality.
Motivation Criterionclaim0.726
Intrinsic Motivationconcept0.720
The drive to explore arising from epistemic value, independent of extrinsic reward, naturally emerging in active inference.
Process Theoryconcept0.710
Foundational framework consisting of systems (wires), processes (boxes), and composition (wirings); basis for quantum and compositional reasoning.
Desire-Fulfilment Theoryframework0.701
The theory of welfare that something is good for a person if and only if she desires it under the right conditions.
Theory Of Mindconcept0.698
Cognitive capacity attributed to humans and animals; referenced as basis for mentalism intuitions.
Higher-Order Theoryframework0.698
A theory of consciousness on which mental states become conscious by being the objects of higher-order states.