Making Sense of Phenomenal Unity: An Intentionalist Account of Temporal Experience
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement October 1, 2010 Julian Kiverstein
Perceptual experiences present movement, persistence, and change across time, yet they occur in a present that has no duration. This paper argues that the problem of temporal experience is identical to the problem of phenomenal unity—how experiences at different times can be unified so that events across time are experienced together. The author contends that any adequate account of temporal experience must also explain phenomenal unity and turns to Edmund Husserl's writings on time consciousness for such an account.