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RESEARCH AREAS:

  • Philosophy of Mind

  • Cognitive Ontology

  • Metaphysics

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SIMON RAPOSO

Doctoral Student; 
Department of Philosophy, Western University

I am a doctoral student in the department of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. I completed my BA in History (Honours) and MA in Philosophy at Toronto Metropolitan University. My primary research interests are in the nature of desire, belief, and their links to rational action. More specifically, I am interested in whether or not desires are just a type of belief, and how that may impact our theories of action.

My primary research focus is the nature of desire and belief. Specifically, I focus on the question of whether or not desires are simply a type of belief. Common accounts given through the history of philosophy have maintained that desires are distinctive states from beliefs because beliefs are propositional, have a different mind to world relation, and have a different phenomenological value, or ‘what is like’ characteristic. I aim to address each of these common account points. I focus mostly on the issue of phenomenological value, and advocate for the thesis that desires and beliefs can have the same phenomenal value based on the content of the mental attitude.

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