Claudia Blöser is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Her main areas of research are practical philosophy, especially Kant's practical philosophy and moral psychology. Her publications include Zurechnung bei Kant (2014, Berlin/New York: de Gruyter), articles in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Kantian Review, Philosophia, Ratio. Together with Titus Stahl, she has authored the Stanford Encylopedia article on hope (2017) and "Fundamental Hope and Practical Identity" (Philosophical Papers, 2017).

Titus Stahl is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Groningen. He works on social and political philosophy, critical social theory, privacy theory and the history of political thought. He has published in Constellations, Critical Horizons, Social Theory and Practice, and Ethics and Information Technology. His book "Immanent Critique" will appear with Rowman and Littlefield in 2020. Together with Claudia Blöser, he has authored the Stanford Encylopedia article on hope (2017) and "Fundamental Hope and Practical Identity" (Philosophical Papers, 2017).

1. Claudia Blöser & Titus Stahl: The Moral Psychology of Hope. An Introduction

Part I: Hope in the History of Philosophy
2. Douglas Cairns: Hope in archaic and classical Greek
3. Anne Jeffrey: Hope in Christianity
4. Claudia Blöser: Hope in Kant
5. Roe Fremstedal: Kierkegaard on Hope as Essential to Selfhood
6. Sarah Stitzlein: Pragmatist Hope

Part II: The Nature of Hope
7. Katie Stockdale: Emotional hope
8. Matthew Benton: Epistemological aspects of hope
9. Samantha Vice: Pessimism and the Possibility of Hope
10. Nancy E. Snow: Is Hope a Moral Virtue?
11. Matthew W. Gallagher, Johann M. D'Souza & Angela L. Richardson: Hope in Contemporary Psychology
12. Rika Dunlap: A Zen Buddhist Conception of Hope in Enlightenment

Part III: Social Contexts of Hope
13. Adrienne M. Martin: Interpersonal Aspects of Hope
14. Darrel Moellendorf: Hope for Material Progress in the Age of the Anthropocene
15. Titus Stahl: Political Hope and Cooperative Community