10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WISHFUL THINKER»
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wishful thinker in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Stories Julian Tells
But some stories can lead to a heap of trouble, and that's exactly where Julian and Huey end up! This book has been selected as a Common Core State Standards Text Exemplar (Grades 2-3, Stories) in Appendix B
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Self and Deception: A Cross-Cultural Philosophical Enquiry
The wishful thinker that P enjoys thinking about reasons for P, but is
uncomfortable and stressed when thinking about reasons against P. As a result,
the wishful thinker may dwell on evidence for P, and not properly attend to
evidence against ...
Roger T. Ames, Wimal Dissanayake, 1996
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The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy
Instead of belief arranging itself to fit the world, it arranges itself to fit desire. On
MacKinnon's description, when the powerful desire that p, they come to believe
that p - in the manner of the wishful thinker. And instead of belief arranging itself
to ...
Miranda Fricker, Jennifer Hornsby, 2000
But it is better than wishful thinking.100 Caught in trouble, the wishful thinker says
, “It could be worse; I'll just live with it.” Often that's what the battered wife does.
We see her in the emergency room, the police asks about her battered condition,
...
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Mechanistic Realism and US Foreign Policy: A New Framework ...
A counter-wishful thinker is the negatively inclined sibling of the better known
wishful thinker, the agent prone to believe whatever he desires. Counter-wishful
thinking takes place when a contrary desire impacts an agent's belief. Unlike the
...
Johannes Gullestad Rø, Johannes Gullestad Ro, 2013
Bela Szabados, in a paper devoted to locating the distinction, suggests that both
the self-deceiver and the wishful thinker hold a false belief, and that both are
influenced by a desire or motive of some sort, but that whereas "the self-deceiver
...
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Wish-fulfilment in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: The ...
A wishful thinker, on this view, is typically an unintentional self-misleader. How is
desire supposed to do it? What might happen in a typical case of wishful thinking
is this. One's desire that p affects one's interests and attention in such a way as ...
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Perspectives on Self-deception
Nevertheless, in wishful thinking, it is not atypical for a desire that p to bias the
wishful thinker in such a way that he misleads himself, albeit unintentionally, into
believing or continuing to believe that p. A wishful thinker is not atypically "an ...
Brian P. McLaughlin, Amélie Rorty, 1988
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Seeing Through Self-Deception
As Mele points out, the term “wishful thinking” may be used in a variety of ways. In
the way I am using it, “wishful thinking” is not equivalent to “wishful false believing
.” Suppose however, one accepts “the stipulation that what the wishful thinker ...
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Attacking Faulty Reasoning: A Practical Guide to ...
Both the rationalizer and the wishful thinker want a claim to be true, but while the
rationalizer attempts to establish that claim by means of irrelevant phony
premises, the wishful thinker tries to establish it exclusively on the unwarranted ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WISHFUL THINKER»
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The Wishful Thinkers (Los ilusos): London Review
A wishful thinker of romance, Leon also strikes up a hesitant relationship with Sofia (the relatively well-known Aura Garrido), and together they explore Madrid by ... «Hollywood Reporter, Oct 13»
