@article{799ac9710f0243ebbc727399daac1238,
title = "Bias towards the future",
abstract = "All else being equal, most of us typically prefer to have positive experiences in the future rather than the past and negative experiences in the past rather than the future. Recent empirical evidence tends not only to support the idea that people have these preferences, but further, that people tend to prefer more painful experiences in their past rather than fewer in their future (and mutatis mutandis for pleasant experiences). Are such preferences rationally permissible, or are they, as time-neutralists contend, rationally impermissible? And what is it that grounds their having the normative status that they do have? We consider two sorts of arguments regarding the normative status of future-biased preferences. The first appeals to the supposed arbitrariness of these preferences, and the second appeals to their upshot. We evaluate these arguments in light of the recent empirical research on future-bias.",
author = "Preston Greene and Latham, \{Andrew J.\} and Kristie Miller and James Norton and Christian Tarsney and Hannah Tierney",
note = "Funding Information: Preston Greene would like to thank the Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 1 RG134/19(NS) for their support. Kristie Miller would like to thank the Australian Research Council (FT170100262 and DP180100105) for providing funding for this research. James Norton would like to thank the Icelandic Centre for Research (195617-051) and Andrew J. Latham would like to thank the Ngāi Tai Ki Tāmaki Tribal Trust. Open access publishing facilitated by The University of Sydney, as part of the Wiley - The University of Sydney agreement via the Council of Australian University Librarians. Funding Information: Preston Greene would like to thank the Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 1 RG134/19(NS) for their support. Kristie Miller would like to thank the Australian Research Council (FT170100262 and DP180100105) for providing funding for this research. James Norton would like to thank the Icelandic Centre for Research (195617‐051) and Andrew J. Latham would like to thank the Ngāi Tai Ki Tāmaki Tribal Trust. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 The Authors. Philosophy Compass published by John Wiley \& Sons Ltd.",
year = "2022",
month = jun,
day = "24",
doi = "10.1111/phc3.12859",
language = "English",
volume = "17",
journal = "Philosophy Compass",
issn = "1747-9991",
publisher = "Wiley Blackwell Publishing",
number = "8",
}