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The ‘constitutive thought’ of regret (2017)
Journal Article
Scarre, G. (2017). The ‘constitutive thought’ of regret. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 25(5), 569-585. https://doi.org/10.1080/09672559.2017.1381402

In this paper I defend and develop Bernard Williams’ claim that the ‘constitutive thought’ of regret is ‘something like “how much better if it had been otherwise”’. An introductory section on cognitivist theories of emotion is followed by a detailed... Read More about The ‘constitutive thought’ of regret.

‘The compages, the bonds and rivets of the race’: W. E. Gladstone on the keeping of books (2017)
Journal Article
Scarre, G. (2017). ‘The compages, the bonds and rivets of the race’: W. E. Gladstone on the keeping of books. Library and Information History, 33(3), 182-194. https://doi.org/10.1080/17583489.2017.1334860

For the great Victorian Liberal statesman and Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone, books were the ‘voices of the dead’ and ‘a main instrument of communication with the vast human procession of the other world’. Gladstone's 1890 article ‘On Books and the H... Read More about ‘The compages, the bonds and rivets of the race’: W. E. Gladstone on the keeping of books.