Practical Reasoning, Future Desires, and Regret

I argue that “I’ll be glad I did it, so I should do it” is often good reasoning, but fails in certain crucial cases due to our reasonable attachment to the actual. I discuss practical reasoning about transformative experiences. And I explain why we wish we could die later than we will, but we don’t wish we’d been born sooner than we were.

“‘I’ll Be Glad I Did It’ Reasoning and the Significance of Future Desires,” Philosophical Perspectives, 2009. (Abstract)

“Transformative Experiences and Reliance on Moral Testimony,” Res Philosophica, 2015. (Abstract)

“Fischer and Lamenting Non-existence,” Social Theory and Practice, 2011. (Abstract)