The Normative Status of Time Bias: An Empirically Led Investigation

by Kristie Miller

This book empirically investigates the nature of time biases. Many philosophers think that it is rationally permissible to prefer a life that is overall worse to one that is overall better, as long the badness of that life lies in the past rather than the future. These philosophers think that it is rationally permissible to be time biased. Time biased individuals differently value the wellbeing of their various selves in virtue of where...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032867159
• ISBN13: 9781032867151
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages