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I am grateful to Owen Flanagan for alerting me to this special issue.
My comments on hope draw on a work in progress, Landscapes of Hope: The ‘What,’ ‘Why,’ and ‘How’ of Hope.
Some philosophers argue that probability estimates are involved in hoping (see Day 1969); others, that hope requires mental imaging or exercises of the imagination (see Bovens 1999 and Martin 2014, respectively); and others, that hope imparts to desire a kind of special motivational force or buoyancy (see Aquinas 2008 and Walker 2006).
I say ‘could be’ because such misbeliefs might not be necessary. Perhaps Artemesia has been fed some love potion that causes her to fall in love with me, and I thereby attain the object of my hope without having to form any misbeliefs about myself.
I owe this example to Margaret Walker.
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Snow, N.E. Comments on Badhwar, Well-Being: Happiness in a Worthwhile Life . J Value Inquiry 50, 209–217 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-016-9545-x
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