Caring About your Future Selves at the Expense of your Past Selves
Suppose you wake up in the hospital tomorrow morning, and in your groggy state you can’t remember whether you had a painful operation...
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Kristie Miller
- Jun 9, 2020
- 6 min
Can dogs tell time?
It seems pretty obvious that dogs can tell time. No one who has a dog really doubts that dogs can tell when it’s time for dinner, or a...
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Kristie Miller
- Jun 4, 2020
- 5 min
Thank goodness that’s over: preferring our pains to be past
We care where in time pains and pleasures are located, but do we also care where other kinds of experiences are located? Recent research...
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Kristie Miller
- May 30, 2020
- 6 min
Preferring cake tomorrow, to cake yesterday
Recent research from the Centre for Time at the University of Sydney undermines a widely held assumption that our preferences about the...
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Kristie Miller
- May 18, 2020
- 4 min
What do we think time is like?
It seems safe to say that we all act as though time is real. Time is central to our way of organising our day, our week, and indeed our...
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Kristie Miller
- May 14, 2020
- 4 min
We feel time pass: or do we?
Philosophers have long worried about the nature of time itself, and about our experience of time. While there’s practically nothing that...
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