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  1. See “Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person” and “Identification and Wholeheartedness,” in Frankfurt The Importance of What We Care About: Philosophical Essays (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1988); see also Gary Watson, “Free Agency,” in Free Will: Oxford Readings in Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1982).

  2. Frankfurt, op cit., p. 66.

  3. Harry Frankfurt, “Identification and Externality,” in The Importance of What We Care About (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 67.

  4. Ibid., 67.

  5. Ibid., p. 68.

  6. See I. L. Humberstone “Direction of Fit,” Mind vol. 101, 1992; see also John Searle, Intentionality: An Essay in Philosophy of Mind (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press); and Michael Smith, “The Humean Theory of Motivation” in Mind vol. 96, 1987.

  7. Adam Morton, Frames of Mind: Constraints on the Common-Sense Conception of the Mental (Oxford: Oxford University Press), p. 139.

  8. See Melanie Klein, “Envy and Gratitude,” in Melanie Klein and Joan Riviere, Love, Hate and Reparation (New York: W.H. Norton & Co., 1957).

  9. Richard Moran, Authority and Estrangement (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001), p. 181.

  10. David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, ed. L.A. Selby-Bigge (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951), p. 278.

  11. In writing this article, I have been greatly influenced by the work of Richard Wollheim. I would like to thank Russ Shafer-Landau, Mark Bedau, two referees, and Thomas Magnell, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Value Inquiry for helpful comments on this article.

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Arkonovich, S. Conflicts of Desire. J Value Inquiry 46, 51–63 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-012-9319-z

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