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Shardlow, Jack, Lee, Ruth, Hoerl, Christoph, McCormack, Teresa, Burns, Patrick and Fernandes, Alison S. (2021) Exploring people’s beliefs about the experience of time. Synthese, 198 . 10709-10731 . doi:10.1007/s11229-020-02749-2 ISSN 0039-7857.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02749-2
Abstract
Philosophical debates about the metaphysics of time typically revolve around two contrasting views of time. On the A-theory, time is something that itself undergoes change, as captured by the idea of the passage of time; on the B-theory, all there is to time is events standing in before/after or simultaneity relations to each other, and these temporal relations are unchanging. Philosophers typically regard the A-theory as being supported by our experience of time, and they take it that the B-theory clashes with how we experience time and therefore faces the burden of having to explain away that clash. In this paper, we investigate empirically whether these intuitions about the experience of time are shared by the general public. We asked directly for people’s subjective reports of their experience of time—in particular, whether they believe themselves to have a phenomenology as of time’s passing—and we probed their understanding of what time’s passage in fact is. We find that a majority of participants do share the aforementioned intuitions, but interestingly a minority do not.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BD Speculative Philosophy | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Time -- Philosophy, Metaphysics, Experience, Illusion (Philosophy), Time -- Psychological aspects | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Synthese | ||||||||
Publisher: | Springer | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0039-7857 | ||||||||
Official Date: | November 2021 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 198 | ||||||||
Page Range: | 10709-10731 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1007/s11229-020-02749-2 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 16 July 2020 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 16 July 2020 | ||||||||
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