Constructing the Present

ERA: The Extensional-Retentional Analysis

Constructing the Present 2025 Camden Alexander Mckenna

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...