Time bias and prudential rationality: a defense of the rational permissibility of future bias

• Main Author: Low, Kang Sheng
• Other Authors: Andrew T. Forcehimes
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2024
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities; Philosophy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174511
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Prudence is often claimed to rationally require temporal neutrality. Time biases like future bias are thus rejected as rationally impermissible as the temporal location of a good is deemed to be rationally insignificant. However, we appear to have a strong tendency to be future-biased in the case of...