This chapter proposes an alternative to the classic models of time-consciousness, called the Extensional-Retentional Analysis of temporal phenomenology, or ERA. ERA represents a pluralistic explanatory strategy as opposed to a “hybrid” view. This strategy sees extensionalism and retentionalism as not only mutually compatible, but synergistic in the sense that each is best suited to explain...
ErkenntnisJuly 24, 2021Camden Alexander Mckenna4 citations
Abstract I argue for constraining the nomological possibility space of temporal experiences and endorsing the Succession Requirement for agents. The Succession Requirement holds that the basic structure of temporal experience must be successive for agentive subjects, at least in worlds that are law-like in the same way as ours. I aim to establish the Succession Requirement by showing...