The experience of temporal passage

Diplôme Thèse The experience of temporal passage eng 2013-01-25 author Frischhut Akiko Monika 667595 director Correia Fabrice Jean-Michel 28133 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:26613 urn:nbn:ch:unige-266135 L. 774 The project of my dissertation was to advance the metaphysical debate about temporal passage, by relating it to debates about the perceptual experience of time and change. It seems true that we experience temporal passage, even if there is disagreement whether time actually passes, or what temporal passage consists in. This appears to give the defender of dynamic time an advantage in accounting for our experience. I challenge this by arguing that no major account of temporal perception can accommodate experiences of temporal passage such that we could infer passage from them. This shows that static theories of time are at no disadvantage in accounting for the phenomenology of temporality. The conclusion has far reaching consequences: for instance, an important motivation for holding an A-theory of time is precisely the psychological intuition that we experience temporal passage. By undermining that intuition, I undermine the motivation for holding an A-theory. Metaphysics of time Temporal experience Temporal passage Change McTaggart paradox Dewey 100/501 89 Département de philosophie 3G false 12e211bf-1b36-433a-8dce-256994a502b6 Thesis Restricted 2012frischhutphd.pdf 2191488 application/pdf dcda3bfd5f0ff6c7ecdbeb20caa6512cd8f972dc6f630d486532921ef1a3eee1 restrictedAccess Faculté des lettres / Département de philosophie

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