TY - JOUR AB - <p>Psychologists and philosophers have argued that the capacity for perseverance or “grit” depends both on willpower and on a kind of epistemic resilience. But can a form of hopefulness in one’s future success also constitute a source of grit? I argue that substantial practical hopefulness, as a hope to bring about a desired outcome through exercises of one’s agency, can serve as a distinctive ground for the capacity for perseverance. Gritty agents’ “practical hope” centrally involves an attention-fueled, risk-inclined weighting of two competing concerns over action: when facing the decision of whether to persevere, hopeful gritty agents prioritize the aim of choosing a course of action which <i>might</i> go <i>very well</i> over that of choosing a course of action which is <i>very likely</i> to go <i>fairly well</i>. By relying on the notion of a “risk-inclined attentional pattern” as a dimension of gritty agents’ practical hope, we can explain that form of hope’s contribution to their motivation and practical rationality, especially on a risk-weighted expected utility framework. The upshot is a more pluralistic view of the sources of grit.</p> AU - Catherine Rioux DA - 2022/12// DO - 10.3998/ergo.2234 IS - 0 VL - 8 PB - Michigan Publishing Services PY - 2022 TI - Hope as a Source of Grit T2 - Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy UR - https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article/id/2234/ ER -