The Passage of Time

In Adrian Bardon Heather Dyke (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Time. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 315-327 (2013)
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Abstract

This chapter discusses the notion that time passes, along with two major families of objections to this notion. The first kind of objection concerns the rate at which time passes; it has often been suggested that no coherent rate can be given. The alleged problems for the standard view, that time passes at one second per second, are discussed. A positive suggestion is then made for a way of making sense of the claim that time passes at one second per second, based on the notion of ‘stretching’ properties such as ‘being future’ across a time series made up of events. The second family of objections concerns the experience of time passing. Two arguments are discussed, one of which concerns epistemological issues while the other concerns the intentionality of experience. Overall the arguments from experience weigh against the passage of time.

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Simon Prosser
University of St. Andrews

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