Abstract
Abstract This chapter offers an account of ambivalence. To begin, it distinguishes between ambivalence and several related phenomena: being indecisive, being uncertain, being unsettled, being wavering, being weak-willed, and having mixed feelings. Unlike these forms of agential conflict, ambivalence necessarily implicates inner states of the agent (e.g., what she loves, values, cares about, etc.). Moreover, the conflict that one experiences when ambivalent is not one that lends itself to neat or tidy resolution, as might be the case in instances of indecision or uncertainty. On the resulting account, ambivalence is a form of inner conflict that the agent experiences as being irresolvable without value remainder.
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