Welfare and Felt Duration

Bibliographic Data

ID21364044
AuthorsAndreas L Mogensen (0000-0001-6239-8710, Faculty of Philosophy University of Oxford Oxford UK, corresponding author)
Year2025
Publication date2025-11-12
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNoûs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0029-4624 • E-ISSN: 1468-0068
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/nous.70022
OpenAlexW4416131100
LanguageEN
References cited54

How should we understand the duration of a pleasant or unpleasant sensation, insofar as its duration modulates how good or bad the experience is overall? Given that we seem able to distinguish between subjective and objective duration and that how well or badly someone's life goes is naturally thought of as something to be assessed from her own perspective, it seems intuitive that it is subjective duration that modulates how good or bad an experience is from the perspective of an individual's welfare. However, I argue that we know of no way to make sense of what subjective duration consists in on which this claim turns out to be plausible. Moreover, some plausible theories of what subjective duration consists in strongly suggest that subjective duration is irrelevant in itself

Duration (music) · Perspective (graphical) · Term (time) · Time perception · Welfare · Free Will and Agency · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy and Theoretical Science