How to explain the experience of the passage of time?
Charlotte Gauvry
Verlag Karl Alber eBooks 2023 DOI: 10.5771/9783495994078-73 (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 the subjective experience of time's passage, which does not correspond to physical reality, can be given a non-eliminativist explanation in terms of second-order representation, after first clarifying the phenomenology of that experience. |
Abstract
The question of the “passage of time,” particularly that of the subjective experience of time’s passage, raises difficult problems from both phenomenal and metaphysical perspectives. This is because it seems that we experience the passage of time in the first person, even though this experience does not correspond to any physical reality. The aim of this chapter is to clarify the phenomenology of the experience of time’s passage and to offer a non-eliminativist explanation of it in terms of second-order representation.