Time Biases: A Theory of Rational Planning and Personal Persistence

ISBN-13: 9780198812845 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 208 str.

Meghan Sullivan

Opis

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.

O autorze

Meghan Sullivan is a Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame and the Director of the University Philosophy Requirement. Sullivan's research tends to focus on philosophical problems concerning time, modality, rational planning and religious belief. Shehas published work in many of the leading generalist philosophy journals, including Nous, Ethics, and Philosophical Studies. She also regularly writes shorter public philosophy essays - including publications in The Huffington Post, Commonweal and First Things - and gives public philosophy talks.