Should you care less about your distant future? What about events in your life that have already happened? How should the passage of time affect your planning and assessment of your life? Most of us think it is irrational to ignore the future but harmless to dismiss the past. But this book argues that rationality requires temporal neutrality.
Should you care less about your distant future? What about events in your life that have already happened? How should the passage of time affect your planning and assessment of your life? Most of us think it is irrational to ignore the future but harmless to dismiss the past. But this book argues that rationality requires temporal neutrality.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Meghan Sullivan is the Wilsey Family College Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and the Director of the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study. Her work focuses on time, modality, value theory, rational planning and religious belief. She's published work with many leading philosophy journals and current serves as a co-editor for Nous.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1: The Received Wisdom 2: The Life Saving Argument 3: The Arbitrariness Argument 4: Personal Volatility 5: Preferences about the Past 6: The No Regrets Argument 7: The Arbitrariness Argument (Again) 8: Understanding Temporal Neutrality 9: Neutrality, Sunk Costs, and Commitment 10: Neutrality and Life Extension 11: Neutrality and Meaning
Introduction 1: The Received Wisdom 2: The Life Saving Argument 3: The Arbitrariness Argument 4: Personal Volatility 5: Preferences about the Past 6: The No Regrets Argument 7: The Arbitrariness Argument (Again) 8: Understanding Temporal Neutrality 9: Neutrality, Sunk Costs, and Commitment 10: Neutrality and Life Extension 11: Neutrality and Meaning
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