Machine generated contents note: Questions about Hope -- Orthodox Definition and Its Critics -- Hope as a Syndrome -- Incorporation Analysis -- Summary of Chapters -- ch. 1 Beyond the Orthodox Definition of Hope -- Orthodox Definition in the Modern Period -- Orthodox Definition in Recent Philosophy -- Challenge Cases -- First Analysis: Luc Bovens and Mental Imaging -- Second Analysis: Ariel Meirav and External Factors -- Third Analysis: Philip Pettit and Cognitive Resolve -- Final Analysis: Incorporation -- Hopeful Thoughts: Fantasy -- Hopeful Feelings: Anticipation -- Summary -- ch. 2 Incorporation -- Understanding Mental States through Their Fundamental Norms -- Two Constraints on Reasons -- Normative Governance Requires Deliberative Responsiveness -- Deliberation Constrains Reasons -- Licensing Stance -- Transparency of Doxastic Deliberation to Evidence -- Putting Transparency and Deliberation Constrains Reasons Together -- Practical Deliberation about the Licensing Stance -- Other Part of the Incorporation Element: Treating Desire as a Practical Reason -- Inadequacy of Monist Theories of Motivation -- Dualist Theory: Subrational and Rational Motivational Representations -- Hope as Incorporation -- Hoping and End-Setting -- Cases: Hoping without End-Setting -- End-Setting Conception's Inability to Accommodate These Cases -- Conclusion: A Unified Theory of Hope and the Worry about Excessive Reflectiveness -- ch. 3 Suicide and Sustenance -- Virtue and Sustenance -- First Extreme: Aquinas and Irascible Hope -- Thomistic "Inner Cathedral" -- Concupiscible and Irascible Passions -- Second Extreme: Calhoun and Seconding Practical Commitment -- Hopeful Fantasies and Sustenance -- Contingent Sustenance -- Example: "Self-Help" and Self-Sabotage -- Summary -- ch. 4 Faith and Sustenance without Contingency -- Chief Plenty Coups and Unimaginable Hope -- Kant on the Highest Good and Morally Obligatory Hope -- Transformation of Hope into Faith -- Marcel's Hope -- Grounding Hope in Love -- Possibility of Secular Faith -- Summary -- ch. 5 Normative Hope -- Strawson and the Reactive Attitudes -- Mapping the Territory: Interpersonal Relations -- Gratitude, Disappointment, and Normative Hope -- Hope for the Vicious -- Summary.
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