ABSTRACT What is the temporal structure of conscious experience? While it is popular to think that our most basic conscious experiences are temporally extended, we will be arguing against this view, on the grounds that it makes our conscious experiences depend on the future in an implausible way. We then defend an alternative view of the temporal structure of experience from a variety of...
Abstract According to Idealism, every fundamental entity is conscious, and moreover every fundamental property is a phenomenal property. The goal of this chapter is to defend “Modal Idealism,” which is the thesis that Idealism is metaphysically necessary. In particular, I give four different arguments for Modal Idealism. First, I argue that, if at least some possible fundamental properties are...