Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/99695878157

Abstract

In this talk, I would like to explore some meta-theoretical questions regarding current debates about temporal experience, by which I mean questions about how best to conceive of what is at stake in those debates. I begin by introducing the question of how we perceive temporal phenomena at all, and briefly consider a suggested reformulation of that question. I then turn to the question of whether time really passes, and whether we experience time as really passing. I examine both a metaphysics-first approach to this issue, and then the reformulation implicit in Craig Callender’s book ‘What makes time special?’ (OUP 2017). I conclude that as a reformulation, the latter does not succeed. I end with some remarks on where philosophy of temporal experience might go from here.