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Thank goodness that’s Newcomb: The practical relevance of the temporal value asymmetry
- Abstract:
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I describe a thought experiment in which an agent must choose between suffering a greater pain in the past or a lesser pain in the future. This case demonstrates that the ‘temporal value asymmetry’ – our disposition to attribute greater significance to future pleasures and pains than to past – can have consequences for the rationality of actions as well as attitudes. This fact, I argue, blocks attempts to vindicate the temporal value asymmetry as a useful heuristic tied to the asymmetry of ca...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Analysis Journal website
- Volume:
- 77
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 750–759
- Publication date:
- 2017-08-02
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-05-02
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1467-8284
- ISSN:
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0003-2638
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:969039
- UUID:
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uuid:3adbf270-a999-4ab0-9b02-05c6586b9aec
- Local pid:
- pubs:969039
- Source identifiers:
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969039
- Deposit date:
- 2019-02-06
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- Copyright holder:
- Tarsney, C
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © The Author 2017
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