Regret

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Regret
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Personal and Political Significance of Regret
1. 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
2. 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?
3. 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
4. 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
5. Regret, Valuing, and Virtue
	5.1. Introduction
	5.2. Regret, Attachment, and Affirmation
	5.3. Assessing Wallace’s Account
	5.4. Regret and Unrealised Values
	5.5. Conflicts of Value and Tragic Choices
	5.6. Coda: Aristotle and Stoicism
6. The Social Structuring of Regret
	6.1. Introduction
	6.2. The Cultural Politics of Emotion
	6.3. The Social Contours of Regret
	6.4. Pronatalism and Regret
	6.5. Regretting Motherhood
7. Voluntary Sterilization and Regret
	7.1. Introduction
	7.2. Refused Sterilization Requests
	7.3. Autonomy and Medical Paternalism
	7.4. Sterilization, Well-​Being, and Informed Consent
	7.5. Permanency, Commitment, and Choice
	7.6. Credibility, Identity, and Epistemic Injustice
8. Abortion and Regret
	8.1. Introduction
	8.2. The Politicization of Abortion Regret
	8.3. The Rise to Prominence of Abortion Regret
	8.4. Ripple Effects
	8.5. The Normative Force of Abortion Regret
9. 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
10. Living with and without Regret
	10.1. Introduction
	10.2. Refusing to Regret
	10.3. The Waxing or Waning of Regret
	10.4. Self-​Forgiveness and Regret
	10.5. Looking to the Future
	10.6. Regulating Regret
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Index