Philosopher Paddy McQueen provides a detailed examination of the nature of regret and its role in decision-making. Additionally, he explores how experiences of regret are shaped by social discourses, especially those about gender and parenthood.
Paddy McQueen is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Swansea University. Prior to that, he was a lecturer at Queen's University Belfast and an Irish Research Council post-doctoral researcher at University College Dublin. In addition to various journal articles, he has written three books, the most recent of which is entitled Critical Phenomenology: An Introduction, co-authored with Elisa Magrì (Polity, 2022).