ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author wants to provide answers to the questions of whether and how we can be responsible for our emotions by showing that such a picture of emotions is seriously mistaken. It is sometimes held that being able to do or have something at will is a necessary condition of responsibility for it. Having (or culpably lacking) foresight of something is often thought to be a necessary condition of responsibility for it. However, there is an important objection to the author argument so far which has not yet been addressed. First, we are often responsible for the consequences of our actions, whether those consequences are conditions, states, beliefs (etc.), or other actions of ours, and further, they do not have to be consequences which are under our control at the time they occur. Second, it is worth remembering the potentially uncooperative nature of our emotions in our attempts to cultivate and modify them.
