Commentary: Physical time within human time
Frontiers in Psychology May 4, 2023 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1096280 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that a distinction must be drawn between physical/metaphysical questions about time and phenomenological or experiential questions, and notes that phenomenology since Husserl has traditionally "bracketed" experiential questions from metaphysical ones, while some thinkers hold that the physical and metaphysical features of time explain the phenomenological ones. |
Abstract
It is important to begin by distinguishing two types of questions. There are physical/metaphysical questions and there are phenomenological or experiential questions. Traditionally, starting with Husserl, in a neo-Kantian transcendental spirit, the discipline of phenomenology has sought to "bracket" questions of experience from metaphysical questions. There are those who believe however that the metaphysical and physical features of time explain the phenomenological ones. Per Price, the physical/metaphysical questions are as follows (2011, p. 277):1.