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Hoerl, Christoph (2022) Past/future attitude asymmetries : values, preferences, and the phenomenon of relief. In: Hoerl, Christoph and McCormack, Teresa and Fernandes, Alison, (eds.) Temporal Asymmetries in Philosophy and Psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 204-222. ISBN 9780198862901
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Abstract
An influential thought experiment by Derek Parfit sought to establish that people have a preference for unpleasant events to lie in the past rather than the future. In recent discussions of Parfit’s argument, this purported preference is modelled as a discounting phenomenon, as is the tensed emotion of relief, which Arthur Prior argued demonstrated that there is an objective metaphysical difference between the past and the future. Looking at recent work demonstrating some psychological past/future asymmetries that are more clearly instances of discounting, this chapter argues that this existing philosophical literature fails to distinguish between what are clearly two quite different psychological phenomena. This affects recent attempts to respond to Prior’s metaphysical argument, because it is not clear that they have identified the right phenomenon to be explained. It also affects Parfit’s thought experiment, because the purported unitary ‘preference’ may in fact be an amalgam of these two quite different psychological phenomena.
| Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Time perspective, Time -- Psychological aspects, Attitude (Psychology), Parfit, Derek, Values | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | ||||||||
| ISBN: | 9780198862901 | ||||||||
| Book Title: | Temporal Asymmetries in Philosophy and Psychology | ||||||||
| Editor: | Hoerl, Christoph and McCormack, Teresa and Fernandes, Alison | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2022 | ||||||||
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| Page Range: | pp. 204-222 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780198862901.003.0009 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
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