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A person is biased toward the future when she prefers, other things being equal, bad events to be in her past rather than her future, or good ones to be in her future rather than her past. In this paper, I explain why both critics and defenders of future bias have failed to consider the best version of the view. I distinguish external time from personal time, and argue that future bias is best construed in terms of the latter. This conception of future bias avoids several standard objections. I then consider a new justification of future bias which is consistent with that construal. My discussion points to a new position regarding the basic relation that grounds rational egoistic concern over time, according to which that relation is asymmetric between persons-stages. I also explain how this way of justifying future bias would resolve the apparent tension between the future bias that we display in our own case and our relative indifference to the timing of good and bad things that happen to other people.

What Justifies Our Bias Toward the Future?