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Rationality and Future Discounting

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Abstract

The best justification of time-discounting is roughly that it is rational to care less about your more distant future because there is less of you around to have it. I argue that the standard version of this argument, which treats both psychological continuity and psychological connectedness as reasons to care about your future, can only rationalize an irrational – because exploitable – form of future discounting.

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Decision theory, Future discounting, Personal identity

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Journal ISSN

0167-7411
1572-8749

Volume Title

39

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Springer Science and Business Media LLC