1st Edition

The Normative Status of Time Bias An Empirically Led Investigation

By Kristie Miller Copyright 2025
264 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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 as 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... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Do Time Biased Preferences Matter?; Chapter 3: Connecting the Time Biases; Chapter 4: Bad Upshot Arguments against Future Bias; Chapter 5: Arguments for Time Bias Part I; Chapter 6: Arguments against Time Bias Part II; Chapter 7: Arguments against Time Bias; Chapter 8: On Being Time Biased.

Biography

Kristie Miller is Professor of Philosophy and joint Director of the Centre for Time at the University of Sydney. She has published widely in the philosophy of time, focusing both on the nature of time itself and our experiences of time. Her most recent work includes Out of Time (Oxford University Press, 2022), written with Sam Baron and Jonathan Tallant; Persistence (Cambridge University Press, 2022); and Does Tomorrow Exist?: A Debate, written with Nikk Effingham (Routledge, 2023).