Choosing for Changing Selves

Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press (2019)
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Abstract

What we value, like, endorse, want, and prefer changes over the course of our lives. Richard Pettigrew presents a theory of rational decision making for agents who recognise that their values will change over time and whose decisions will affect those future times.

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