...This chapter further elaborates the incorporation analysis. Hope does indeed involve the basic elements of the orthodox definition—the desire for an outcome and a subjective probability estimate between 0 and 1. In addition, hope, when most fully realized, makes use of our capacities of self...

... explorations thereof from a number of belief systems—theological, philosophical, and otherwise—and examines the orthodox definition of hope as well as its critics. The chapter closes with a brief overview of the rest of this volume. In chapter 1 , I present a series of challenge cases for the orthodox...

...This chapter presents a series of challenge cases for the orthodox definition of hope—cases that show this definition cannot distinguish strong hopes for highly unlikely outcomes from either weaker hopes or even despair directed at those outcomes. To truly capture what it is to “hope against hope...