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Temporal Asymmetries in Philosophy and Psychology

2022 · rif. GA-YJHY-2S7T — 2022. Hardcover. 2022 OUP hardcover edition. Unread copy in very good condition. From the dustjacket: Humans' attitudes towards an event often vary depending on whether the event has already happened or has yet to take place. The dread felt at the thought of a forthcoming exam turns into relief once it is over. Recent research in psychology also shows that people value past events less than future ones such as offering less pay for work already carried out than for the same work to be carried out in the future. This volume brings together philosophers and psychologists with a shared interest in such psychological past/future asymmetries. It asks questions such as: What different kinds of psychological past/future asymmetries are there and how are they related Under what conditions do humans exhibit them To what extent do they reflect features of time itself or particular beliefs people have about time Are they rational or at least rationally permissible or should we aspire to being temporally neutral What exactly does temporal neutrality consist of Contents: Acknowledgment Contributors Temporal Asymmetries in Philosophy and Psychology: An Introduction : Christoph Hoerl Teresa McCormack and Alison Fernandes 1. Temporally Asymmetric Psychology: Prospection Retrospection and Well-Being : Jairo Ramos Eugene M. Caruso and Leaf Van Boven 2. Look Back Not Ahead Time Use and the Value of Revisiting Past Experiences : Ed O'Brien 3. Temporal Discounting in Philosophy and Psychology: Four Proposals for Mutual Research Aid : Meghan Sullivan 4. Is Discounting for Tense Rational : Craig Callender 5. Why Are People So Darn Past Biased : Preston Greene Andrew James Latham Kristie Miller and James Norton 6. A Developmental Perspective on Temporal Asymmetries : Ruth Lee and Teresa McCormack 7. Caring for Our Future Selves : Alison Fernandes 8. Past/Future Attitude Asymmetries: Values Preferences and the Phenomenon of Relief : Christoph Hoerl 9. The Body as a Time Machine: How the Sensorimotor System Can Asymmetrically Shape the Representation of Time : Luca Rinaldi and Luisa Girelli 10. On Metaphysical Explanations of Psychological Asymmetries : Natalja Deng 11. Temporal Asymmetries and Singular Causation : John Campbell 12. Times Imagined and Remembered : Felipe De Brigard Maria Khoudary and Samuel Murray Index Oxford University Press hardcover