This book empirically investigates the nature of time biases. This book focuses on three key kinds of time bias: near, present, and future bias. It presents a rich picture of the conditions under which we display these biases, and it outlines several psychological explanations for them.

Kristie Miller is Professor of Philosophy and joint Director of the Centre for Time at the University of Sydney. She has published widely in the philosophy of time, focusing both on the nature of time itself and our experiences of time. Her most recent work includes Out of Time (OUP, 2022), written with Sam Baron and Jonathan Tallant; Persistence (CUP, 2022); and Does Tomorrow Exist?: A Debate, written with Nikk Effingham (Routledge, 2023).

Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Do Time Biased Preferences Matter?; Chapter 3: Connecting the Time Biases; Chapter 4: Bad Upshot Arguments Against Future Bias; Chapter 5: Are There Reasons to be Time Biased? Part I; Chapter 6: Are There Reasons to be Time Biased? Part II; Chapter 7: Arguments Against Time Bias; Chapter 8: On Being Time Biased.