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Hope and Fear as Co-Variable Attitudes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2025

Justin J. Bartlett Open the ORCID record for Justin J. Bartlett [Opens in a new window]
Justin J. Bartlett*
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Faculty of Humanities, https://ror.org/04718hx42 Srinakharinwirot University , Bangkok, Thailand
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Corresponding author: Justin J. Bartlett; Email: justinbartlettswu@gmail.com
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Abstract

I offer a critique of the method of analysis employed in Carl-Johan Palmqvist’s article The Mirror Account of Hope and Fear when arguing against the co-variation thesis (CVT). I show that the analysis of CVT—which uses the notational convention of representing a hope as “p’ and its supposed corresponding fear as “¬p’—is problematic in that it potentially obscures the divergent propositional content of hopes and fears. As an antidote, I suggest representing the propositional content of hopes and fears with distinct placeholders p, q, and etc. and I show how this refinement in method allows us to make progress on the issue of co-variation.

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hopehopingfearmirror accountco-variable attitudes

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Discussion Note
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Canadian Journal of Philosophy , First View , pp. 1 - 6
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Inc

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