Abstract
It is argued that that the desire attributed to an agent, X, in sentences of the form ‘X wants to know whether P’, is not X’s overall desire for ‘X knows that P or X knows that “not P”’, but rather X’s expected conditional desire for knowing the truth about P, given the truth. An implication of this account for distributive justice is discussed.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 389-397 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Analysis |
| Volume | 85 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Apr 2025 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Author(s) 2025. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Analysis Trust. All rights reserved.
Keywords
- conditional desire
- desire attribution
- desire to know
- distributive justice
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