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It is plausible that human motivation always includes an other-regarding component.

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1.Actions taken for oneself routinely affect others.
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2.Agents care about those others to some degree.
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3.It is difficult to find evidence against the hypothesis that ultimate motivation always includes an other-regarding component.
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1.Psychological egoism, defended by Hobbes and Mandeville, holds that all motivation reduces to self-interest, including apparent concern for others.
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2.What appears as other-regarding motivation is consistently explicable as instrumental self-interest, reputation management, or anticipated reciprocity.
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3.The unfalsifiability of the claim that motivation 'always includes' an other-regarding component renders it empirically vacuous rather than plausible.
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