Time Biases

Book Review| July 01 2020 Time Biases: A Theory of Rational Planning and Personal Persistence Sullivan, Meghan, Time Biases: A Theory of Rational Planning and Personal Persistence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. 196 pp. Brian Hedden Brian Hedden University of Sydney Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (3): 495–499. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-8311499 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Brian Hedden; Time Biases: A Theory of Rational Planning and Personal Persistence. The Philosophical Review 1 July 2020; 129 (3): 495–499. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-8311499 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsThe Philosophical Review Search Advanced Search This book is about, and more precisely against, time biases. Time biases involve caring about when certain things happen as such. One kind of time bias is familiar and almost universally condemned, namely, the preference for good things to happen sooner and bad things later, even at the cost of a worse overall ratio of goods to bads. This is near bias. But as the plural in the book’s title suggests, there are others: future bias (preferring that good things be in the future and bad things in the past), structural bias (caring about the overall sequence of events in your life; think of the preference for a life that starts out bad but continually improves over a life that starts out good but gradually declines), and meaning bias (caring about when you live in relation to other events). To my knowledge,... © 2020 by Cornell University2020 Issue Section: Book Reviews You do not currently have access to this content

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