The paper examines how present memory experiences of past events are possible, addressing the philosophical puzzle that past events are no longer directly experienced. It outlines Brentano's version of the 'ideality of time view,' which holds that temporal succession is unreal, and contrasts it with Hume's version. The author suggests that, despite significant differences, Brentano's view can be construed as broadly Humean.
The paper argues against radical enactivism's claim that teleosemantics can be stripped of representationalist commitments without explanatory loss. Starting from Brentano's characterization of intentionality, the authors contend that significant features of basic cognition are lost under the radical enactivist revision. They propose an alternative called metaphysically non-committal content-ascriptivism, which retrieves these lost features without the ontological baggage of traditional representationalism.