The Nature of Desire
Edited by Federico Lauria and Julien A. Deonna
Author Information
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. He was recently Associate Researcher at Columbia University. His work is at the intersection of philosophy of mind, ethics, and aesthetics. More specifically, he is interested in issues in philosophy of desire and emotions, such as self-deception, musical emotions, and epistemic emotions, among others.
Julien A. Deonna is associate professor in philosophy at the University of Geneva and project leader at CISA, the Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences. 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). He is the co-director of Thumos, the Genevan philosophy research group on emotions, values and norms.
Contributors:
Maria Alvarez is Reader in Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, King's College London (U.K.). Her research focuses on the philosophy of action, including the nature of agency, the metaphysics and explanation of actions, choice and moral responsibility. She has also published widely on the nature of reasons, especially practical reasons and normativity. She is the author of Kinds of Reasons. An Essay in the Philosophy of Action, Oxford University Press, 2010.
Lauren Ashwell is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Bates College. Dr. Ashwell's areas of specialization include metaphysics, epistemology of mind, and feminist philosophy. Her published work includes articles in Philosophical Studies, The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy Compass, and Social Theory and Practice.
Julien A. Deonna is associate professor in philosophy at the University of Geneva and project leader at CISA, the Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences. 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). He is the co-director of Thumos, the Genevan philosophy research group on Emotions, Values and Norms.
Sabine Döring, Chair of Practical Philosophy at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. Research interests: (Meta)Ethics and the Theory of Agency with an emphasis on the Emotions. Recent publications include: Expressing Emotions: From Action to Art, in Art, Mind, and Narrative: Themes from the Work of Peter Goldie, ed. by Julian Dodd (in print); What's Wrong With Recalcitrant Emotions? From Irrationality to Challenge of Agential Identity, Dialectica 69 (2015), 381-402; What Is an Emotion? Musil's Adverbial Theory, The Monist 97 (2014), 47-65; Being Worthy of Happiness. Towards a Kantian Appreciation of Our Finite Nature (with Eva-Maria Düringer), Philosophical Topics 41 (2013), 143-158.
Bahadir Eker is a PhD-student at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen.
Daniel Friedrich works as a sustainability consultant. He did his PhD at the Australian National University. He has written articles on desire, motivation, promises and the ethics of adoption.
Alex Gregory is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of
Southampton, UK. He works mostly in ethics and metaethics, and more
specifically on the role that desires play in explaining and justifying
behaviour, and related questions about moral motivation and reasons for
action.
Federico Lauria is a post-doctoral researcher at the Philosophy Department and Swiss Center for Affective Sciences of the University of Geneva. He was recently Associate Researcher at Columbia University. His work is at the intersection of philosophy of mind, ethics, and aesthetics. More specifically, he is interested in issues in philosophy of desire and emotions, such as self-deception, musical emotions, and epistemic emotions, among others.
Olivier Massin is a Lecturer at the University of Geneva. His research lies at the confluence of metaphysics, philosophy of mind and value theory. He has notably published several papers on perception, pleasure and pain, effort, and willing.
Graham Oddie is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has broad interests in the theory of value, metaphysics and epistemology, about which he has written a number of articles and books.
Peter Railton is the Kavka Distinguished University Professor and Perrin Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. His research has been in meta-ethics, normative ethics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of psychology. A collection of some of his papers can be found in Facts, Values, and Norms (Cambridge, 2003), and he is co-author of the recent interdisciplinary book Homo Prospectus (Oxford, 2016).
Timothy Schroeder grew up on the Canadian prairies, an environment that afforded him plenty of time for philosophical speculation. He received his B.A. from the University of Lethbridge and his Ph.D. from Stanford University, and is now Professor of Philosophy at Rice University. He is the author of Three Faces of Desire and, with Nomy Arpaly, of In Praise of Desire.
G. F. Schueler is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Delaware. He is the author of Desire (MIT Press, 1995) and Reasons and Purposes (Oxford, 2003) as well as articles on ethics, philosophy of action and philosophy of mind in various philosophy journals.
David Wall was most recently lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Northampton, UK. His research interests lie in philosophy of mind, epistemology, philosophy of action, and moral psychology. In particular he is interested in theories of desire, introspection and self-deception, Moore's paradox, akrasia, and animal ethics, and has published articles on some of these subjects.
