Presentism, Continuous Time-Travel and the Phenomenology of Passage

Erkenntnis 87 (2):767-786 (2022)
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Abstract

We argue that a certain variety of presentist time travel ends up significantly undermining the motivational foundations which lead some, but not all, presentists to their view. We suggest that if presentism is motivated by phenomenology, and part of that phenomenology is that it’s an experiential datum that we experience temporal passage, then the basis for believing presentism is less secure than we might have thought.

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Sam Baron
University of Melbourne
David Braddon-Mitchell
University of Sydney

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