Moral Psychology of Regret

Anna Gotlib is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College CUNY

• 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

What is regret and why should we care? In this volume, the contributors answer these questions in a variety of ways, including considerations of how fate plays into regret, the connection between regret and personhood, when regret is reasonable, and the role regret plays in self-transformation. Gotlib has brought together a remarkable group of theorists, making this collection a go-to read.