Moving ego versus moving time : investigating the shared source of future-bias and near-bias
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Baron, Samuel, Everett, Brigitte C., Latham, Andrew J., Miller, Kristie, Tierney, Hannah and Oh, Jordan Veng Thang. (2023). Moving ego versus moving time : investigating the shared source of future-bias and near-bias. Synthese : an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science. 202(3), pp. 1-33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04286-0
Authors | Baron, Samuel, Everett, Brigitte C., Latham, Andrew J., Miller, Kristie, Tierney, Hannah and Oh, Jordan Veng Thang |
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Abstract | It has been hypothesized that our believing that, or its seeming to us as though, the world is in some way dynamical partially explains (and perhaps rationalizes) future-bias. Recent work has, in turn, found a correlation between future-bias and near-bias, suggesting that there is a common explanation for both. Call the claim that what partially explains our being both future- and near-biased is our believing/it seeming to us as though the world is dynamical, the dynamical explanation. We empirically test two versions of the dynamical explanation. The first is the moving ego explanation—according to which it is our belief that the ego moves, or our phenomenology as of the ego moving, that jointly (partially) explains future- and near-bias. The second is the moving time explanation—according to which it is our belief that time robustly passes, or our phenomenology as of robust passage, which jointly (partially) explain future- and near-bias. We found no evidence in favour of either explanation. |
Keywords | Future bias ; Near bias ; Experimental philosophy ; Moving ego; Moving time ; Time; Self ; Persistence |
Year | 01 Jan 2023 |
Journal | Synthese : an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science |
Journal citation | 202 (3), pp. 1-33 |
Publisher | Springer |
ISSN | 0039-7857 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04286-0 |
Web address (URL) | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-023-04286-0#article-info |
Open access | Open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Page range | 1-33 |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 06 Sep 2023 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 24 Jul 2023 |
Deposited | 15 Aug 2024 |
Additional information | © The Author(s) 2023 |
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Place of publication | Germany |
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