Gotlib Anna (edited). The Moral Psychology of Regret

London, New York: Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd., 2020. — 283 p. — (Series: Moral Psychology of the Emotions). — ISBN 978-1786602510.What kind of an emotion is regret? What difference does it make whether, how, and why we experience it, and how does this experience shape our current and future thoughts, decisions, goals? Under what conditions is regret appropriate? Is it always one kind of experience, or does it vary, based on who is doing the regretting, and why? How is regret different from other backward-looking emotions?
In The Moral Psychology of Regret, scholars from several disciplines—including philosophy, gender studies, disability studies, law, and neuroscience—come together to address these and other questions related to this ubiquitous emotion that so many of us seem to dread. And while regret has been somewhat under-theorized as a subject worthy of serious and careful attention, this volume is offered with the intent of expanding the discourse on regret as an emotion of great moral significance that underwrites how we understand ourselves and each other.VARIETIES OF REGRET
Cousins of Regret
Regret as a Reactive Attitude: The Conditions of Responsibility and Revision
Regret as a Condition for Personhood
Reasonable Regret
REGRET AND THE SELF
Remorse
Regret, Narrative, and Marital Regret and Transformation
Regret, Responsibility, and the Brain
WHETHER TO REGRET
“Bury Me in a Free Land”: Regret for Slavery in Nineteenth Century African American Philosophical Literature
Regret: Considerations of Disability
Regret Aversion in Riskless Choice Contexts: A Formal Model of Choice Behavior and Morally
Problematic Choice Architectures
Long-Term Regret, Perspective, and Fate