Moral Psychology of Regret

The Moral Psychology of Regret assembles scholars from several disciplines, including philosophy, gender studies, disability studies, law and neuroscience, to present regret not merely as a feeling or affect but as an emotion of great moral significance that underwrites how we understand ourselves and each other.

List of contents

Editor's Introduction: Backward Glances, Anna Gotlib / 1. "Bury Me In A Free Land": Regret for Slavery in Nineteenth-Century African-American Philosophical Literature, Catherine Villanueva Gardner / 2. Regret: Considerations of Disability, Teresa Blankmeyer Burke / 3. Regret, Responsibility, and the Brain, Giorgio Coricelli / 4. Regret Minimization as a Determinant of Riskless Decision Making: Overview, and Ethical Implications for Choice Set Engineering, Caspar Chorus / 5. Regret as a Reactive Attitude: The Conditions of Responsibility and Revision, Audrey L. Anton / 6. Reasonable Regret, Maura Priest / 7. Cousins of Regret: Some Deeper Than Others, Adam Morton / 8. Regret, Perspective and Fate, Christopher Cowley / 9. Regret and Self-Knowledge, David Batho / 10. Regret, Perspective and Transformation, Sarah Richmond / 11. Regret as a Condition for Personhood, James F. DiGiovanna / Bibliography / Index

About the author

Anna Gotlib is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College CUNY

Product details

• Authors: Anna Gotlib
• Assisted by: Anna Gotlib (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781786602527
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-252-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Moral Psychology of the Emotions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Psychology: emotions, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy