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Shaping your past selves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2005

Jeanne Peijnenburg*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen, 9712 GLGroningen, The Netherlands
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Abstract

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I propose to complement Ainslie's idea of “bargaining with your future selves” with that of “shaping your past selves.” The result of such a complementation is that an action can work in two ways: (1) as a predecent for future behavior and (2) as a shaper of past behavior. I argue that this diminishes the unwanted effects of hyperbolic discounting even further.

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