Greetings all, This semester's current projects starts up again this coming Monday, July 28. To kick off we have Conrad Heilmann (London School of Economics) who will talk to us about Time Discounting in the Multiple-Self.
As usual, we are in the philosophy common room 1.00-2.30. See you there... Abstract The concept of time discounting is used to introduce weights on future goods, making these less valuable for the decision-maker. Yet it remains unclear why value-making features of a state of the world should depend on its temporal occurrence. The talk presents a simple model of the multiple-self that deals with this question. The talk is structured as follows. Firstly, a representation of time discounting in intertemporal decisions is offered: drawing on a multiple-self interpretation of personal identity over time, it is shown that discounting can be represented as diminishing connectedness between different temporal selves within a person. Secondly, the representation facilitates a discussion and representation of special cases of discounting, namely exponential and hyperbolic discounting. Thirdly, it is shown that with additional assumptions, the representations can also be used in a normative justification of time discounting. Dr. Kristie Miller Australian Research Council Post-doctoral Fellow School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and The Centre for Time The University of Sydney Sydney, Australia Room 411, A18 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: (work) 02 9036 9663 Ph: (mobile) 0432 275 286 http://homepage.mac.com/centre.for.time/KristieMiller/Kristie/Home%20Page.html _______________________________________________ SydPhil mailing list [email protected] List Info: http://lists.arts.usyd.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/sydphil NEW LIST ARCHIVE: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
