Most elpistologists now agree that hope for a specific outcome involves more than just
desire plus the presupposition that the outcome is possible. This paper argues that the …

THE public discourse on climate change has long centred around hope-based narratives
pushed by both the media and mainstream environmentalist agents from Greenpeace and …

This paper defends a theory of hope according to which hopes are composed of a desire
and a belief that the object of the desire is possible. Although belief plus desire theories of …

Hope and anxiety are familiar and ubiquitous characters of our affective lives. Insofar as we
care about the future, we are creatures of hope and anxiety. For creatures like us …

The language of hope is a ubiquitous part of political life, but its value is increasingly
contested. While there is an emerging debate about hope in political philosophy, an …

I argue for a novel answer to the question “What is hope?”. On my view, rather than aiming
for a compound account, ie analysing hope in terms of desire and belief, we should …

The article focuses on the feminist approach to the moral psychology of hope, and
understanding the why, how and what one can hope. Topics discussed include things that …

The philosophy of hope centers on two interlocking sets of questions. The first concerns the
nature of hope. Specific questions here include how to analyze hope, how hope motivates …

Hope is often seen as at once valuable and dangerous: it can fuel our motivation in the face
of challenges, but can also distract us from reality and lead us to irrationality. How can we …

This paper asks whether there is a moral virtue of hope, and if so, what it is. The enterprise is
motivated by a historical asymmetry, namely, that while Christian thinkers have long classed …