Wishful thinking and hopeful attitudes

• Main Author: Tan, Eunice Hui Ru
• Other Authors: Christina Chuang
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Humanities::Philosophy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/171742
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper proposes the role of wishful thinking as a new possible perspective to enhance our understanding of hopeful attitudes or hopefulness. Hopefulness is a relatively new and developing framework in the philosophy of hope amidst theories addressing hope as an action (or hoping, in a sense). Th...