Callender, Craig (2007) The Common Now. [Preprint]

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It’s time detensers stand up for themselves and challenge the claim that experience favors tenses. After arguing that there is no "experience of the present" as contemporary metaphysicians conceive it, the paper turns to the main topic: explaining why people have the powerful intuition that there is a mind-independent Now and don't believe the same about the spatial Here. The paper offers a new theory explaining this difference. Oddly, given the central role temporal experience plays in philosophy of time, empirical work on time perception is virtually absent from this literature. When this neglect is rectified, one sees resources emerging in recent experiments in cognitive neuroscience and psychology that bear on the problem. If I am right, we already have enough information to fill out significantly the best explanation of the difference between the Here and Now.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Callender, Craig
Keywords:	time; tenses; cognitive science; physics
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics
Depositing User:	Craig Callender
Date Deposited:	13 Nov 2007
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2010 15:15
Item ID:	3656
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics
Date:	October 2007
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/3656

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