The Nature of Desire

His work is at the intersection of philosophy of mind, ethics, and aesthetics. He is the co-director of Thumos, the Genevan philosophy research group on emotions, values and norms.. His research interests are in the philosophy of mind, in particular the philosophy of emotions, moral emotions and moral psychology. In addition to many articles in the area, he is the co-author of In Defense of Shame (OUP, 2011) and The Emotions: a Philosophical Introduction (Routledge, 2012). Deonna is associate professor in philosophy at the University of Geneva and project leader at

Federico Lauria is a post-doctoral researcher at the Philosophy Department and Swiss Center for Affective Sciences of the University of Geneva and Visiting Scholar at New York University. His work is at the intersection of philosophy of mind, ethics, and aesthetics. He was recently Associate Researcher at Columbia University. His research interests are in the philosophy of mind, in particular the philosophy of emotions, mo

Desires matter. After all, we seem to desire things under the guise of the good. In the second part of the volume, essays investigate some implications that the various conceptions of desire have on a number of fundamental issues. Which understanding of desire is more accurate? Is the guise of the good even right to assume? Should we adopt an alternative picture that emphasizes desire's deontic nature? What do neuroscientific studies suggest?Essays in the first section of the volume are devoted to these questions, and to the puz