Th e View from Here: On Affi rmation, Attachment, and the Limits of Regret

New York, US: Oup Usa (2013)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

The View from Here is a study of our must fundamental attitudes toward the past. The book explores the dynamics of affirmation and regret, tracing the connections of each to our ongoing attachments. The focus is on situations in which our attachments commit us to affirming events or decisions that we know to have been unfortunate or regrettable

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 90,593

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Regret and the control of temporary preferences.Terry Connolly & Jochen Reb - 2005 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28 (5):653-654.
Abortion and regret.Kate Greasley - 2012 - Journal of Medical Ethics 38 (12):705-711.
Value in the guise of regret.Carla Bagnoli - 2000 - Philosophical Explorations 3 (2):169 – 187.
Conditional-assertion theories of conditionals.William G. Lycan - 2006 - In Judith Thomson & Alex Byrne (eds.), Content and Modality: Themes From the Philosophy of Robert Stalnaker. Oxford University Press. pp. 148--164.
Regret aversion in reason-based choice.Terry Connolly & Jochen Reb - 2012 - Theory and Decision 73 (1):35-51.
Who's to regret, what's to regret?Andrew Fenton & Timothy Krahn - 2008 - American Journal of Bioethics 8 (2):42 – 43.
The role of regret in informed consent.Miles Little - 2008 - Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 6 (1):49-59.

Analytics

Added to PP
2014-01-26

Downloads
73 (#205,340)

6 months
6 (#202,901)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

R. Jay Wallace
University of California, Berkeley

Citations of this work

Emotions and Process Rationality.Oded Na’Aman - 2021 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 99 (3):531-546.
Who Owns Up to the Past? Heritage and Historical Injustice.Erich Hatala Matthes - 2018 - Journal of the American Philosophical Association 4 (1):87-104.
Personal Value, Biographical Identity, and Retrospective Attitudes.Camil Golub - 2019 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 97 (1):72-85.

View all 33 citations / Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references