On Whether to Prefer Pain to Pass  

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Dougherty, Tom

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Ethics: An International Journal of Social Political and Legal Philosophy vol. 121 no. 3 (Apr. 2011), page 521-537.
Topik: Time-biased; Pain in the Past; Pain Pump; Rationally Impermissible

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE44.32 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Most of us are "time-biased" in preferring pains to be past rather than future and pleasures to be future rather than past. However, it turns out that if you are risk averse and time-biased, then you can be turned into a "pain pump"--in order to insure yourself against misfortune, you will take a series of pills which leaves you with more pain and better off in no respect. Since this vulnerability seems rationally impermissible, while time-bias and risk aversion seem rationally permissible, we are left with a puzzle.

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