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Philosopher Paddy McQueen provides a detailed examination of the nature of regret and its role in decision-making. Additionally, he explores how experiences of regret are shaped by social discourses, especially those about gender and parenthood.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Part One: The Philosophy of Regret
- Chapter One: Making Sense of Regret
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. How To Develop an Account of Regret
- 1.3. What Regret Is (And What It Is Not)
- 1.4. The Psychology of Regret
- 1.5. Are There "Types" Of Regret?
- 1.6. The Rational and Intelligible Limits of Regret
- Chapter Two: On The "Fittingness" Of Regret
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. The Moralistic Fallacy
- 2.3. The "Shape" And "Size" Of Regret
- 2.4. Is It Always Unreasonable to Regret?
- Chapter Three: Reasons, Mistakes and Justified Decisions
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Practical Identity and Decision-Justification
- 3.3. "Epistemically Available" Reasons
- 3.4. Perspective-Dependent and Perspective-Independent Reasons
- 3.5. Retrospective Justification
- 3.6. Reasons And Time
- 3.7. Self-Transformations
- 3.8. Akrasia And Regret
- Chapter Four: Regret, Agency and Responsibility
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Regret And the Scope of Responsibility
- 4.3. Against Williams's "Agent-Regret"
- 4.4. Description, Intention and The Framing of Responsibility
- 4.5. Accidents, Apologies and Interpersonal Relations
- Chapter Five: Regret, Valuing and Virtue
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Regret, Attachment and Affirmation
- 5.3. Assessing Wallace's Account
- 5.4. Regret And Unrealized Values
- 5.5. Conflicts Of Value and Tragic Choices
- Coda: Aristotle and Stoicism
- Part Two: The Politics of Regret
- Chapter Six: The Social Structuring of Regret
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. The Cultural Politics of Emotion
- 6.3. The Social Contours of Regret
- 6.4. Pro-Natalism and Regret
- 6.5. Regretting Motherhood
- Chapter Seven: Voluntary Sterilisation and Regret
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Unsuccessful Sterilisation Requests
- 7.3. Autonomy And Medical Paternalism
- 7.4. Sterilisation, Well-Being and Informed Consent
- 7.5. Permanency, Commitment and Choice
- 7.6. Credibility, Identity and Epistemic Injustice
- Chapter Eight: Abortion and Regret
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. The Politicisation of Abortion Regret
- 8.3. The Rise to Prominence of Abortion Regret
- 8.4. Ripple Effects
- 8.5. The Normative Force of Abortion Regret
- Chapter Nine: Trans Regret
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. A Note on Terminology
- 9.3. The Purported "Problem" Of Trans Regret
- 9.4. Personally Transformative Treatment
- 9.5. Trans Regret and The Authentic Self
- Chapter Ten: Living with And Without Regret
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Refusing To Regret
- 10.3. The Waxing and Waning of Regret
- 10.4. Self-Forgiveness and Regret
- 10.5. Looking To the Future
- 10.6. Regulating Regret
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Paddy McQueen is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Swansea University. Prior to that, he was a lecturer at Queen's University Belfast and an Irish Research Council post-doctoral researcher at University College Dublin. In addition to various journal articles, he has written three books, the most recent of which is entitled Critical Phenomenology: An Introduction, co-authored with Elisa Magrì (Polity, 2022).
Summary
Philosopher Paddy McQueen provides a detailed examination of the nature of regret and its role in decision-making. Additionally, he explores how experiences of regret are shaped by social discourses, especially those about gender and parenthood.
