{"title":"The Weight of The Past","authors":"Richard Pettigrew","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198814962.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814962.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter asks whether it is ever required or even permissible to give some weight to the values of your past selves. It argues that sometimes, when a past self has made a sacrifice that benefits the current self, it is at least permissible and sometimes required to give weight to the permissible values of that past self. To do this, the chapter introduces a principle descended from H. L. A. Hart’s (1955, ‘Are there any natural rights?’ Philosophical Review, 64) Principle of Mutual Restriction and John Rawls’s (1975, A Theory of Justice) Principle of Fairness.","PeriodicalId":266837,"journal":{"name":"Choosing for Changing Selves","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130337006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Road Ahead","authors":"Richard Pettigrew","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198814962.003.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814962.003.0016","url":null,"abstract":"This final chapter of the book summarizes the conclusions of the preceding chapters and looks forward to how the Aggregate Utility Solution might be generalized so that it applies not only to the expected utility theory framework, but also to other frameworks for rational decision-making. In particular, it explains how we might extend the Aggregate Utility Solution to the framework of imprecise credences and utilities, and to the framework of risk-sensitive decision theories.","PeriodicalId":266837,"journal":{"name":"Choosing for Changing Selves","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131590021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discounting The Future","authors":"Richard Pettigrew","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198814962.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814962.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter asks whether it is rationally permissible to assign less weight to the values of my other selves in line with the degree of psychological connectedness between us. This draws on Derek Parfit’s (1984, ‘Personal Identity’, in Philosophical Review, 80) rational reconstruction of temporal discounting. The chapter considers an argument by Arif Ahmed (2018, ‘Rationality and Future Discounting’, in Topoi, February) that such weights result in temporal discounting of a variety that makes the individual vulnerable to exploitation. It agrees with Ahmed, but argues that such exploitation does not render the individual irrational.","PeriodicalId":266837,"journal":{"name":"Choosing for Changing Selves","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127292094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Problem of Choosing for Changing Selves","authors":"Richard Pettigrew","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198814962.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814962.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter introduces the problem that the rest of the book seeks to solve, namely, the problem of choosing for changing selves. The chapter presents a series of examples. In each, an individual’s values change over the course of their life, and they must make a decision at a particular time in their life. These examples motivate our problem, and will be drawn on time and again in what follows. The chapter gives an overview of the structure of the book along with a brief précis of each chapter.","PeriodicalId":266837,"journal":{"name":"Choosing for Changing Selves","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123408319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}