Resumen de Whyte on desire fulfilment conditions: a simple problem
According to Jamie Whyte, the proper assignment of fulfilment conditions to an agent�s set of desires proceeds in three steps.
First, one identifies various desire extinction and behavioural reinforcement conditions to obtain the fulfilment conditions of a certain subset of the agent�s desires. With these fulfilment conditions in hand, one then appeals to a principle connecting desire fulfilment conditions with belief truth conditions to obtain the truth conditions of a number of the agent�s beliefs. Finally, one uses these belief truth conditions to generate, via a third principle, the fulfilment conditions for the remaining desires.
There is, however, a very straightforward reason why this strategy cannot yield the required results.
