Dear all, This coming Monday, August 18 1.00-2.20 in the philosophy common room Sam Barron (Usyd) will talk to us about "extended presentism"
Abstract In this paper I focus on presentism, a dynamic theory of time. Presentism is the view that the past and future are unreal: that only the present is real. Moreover, presentism trades on being the intuitive model of time. More specifically, presentists claim that there is something about the day to day phenomenology of nowness that suggests that we live in a presentist world. Though non-presentists might find this claim objectionable, the goal of this paper is not to dispute the plausibility of presentism in general. Rather, the central aim of this paper should be understood in a conditional sense: if one is attracted to presentism and one is inclined to defend one's position in phenomenological terms, then one ought to be what I call an 'extended presentist', the view that although only the present exists, the present has some short duration in real-time. See you all there.... Dr. Kristie Miller Australian Research Council Post-doctoral Fellow School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and The Centre for Time The University of Sydney Sydney, Australia Room 411, A18 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: (work) 02 9036 9663 Ph: (mobile) 0432 275 286 http://homepage.mac.com/centre.for.time/KristieMiller/Kristie/Home%20Page.html _______________________________________________ SydPhil mailing list [email protected] List Info: http://lists.arts.usyd.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/sydphil NEW LIST ARCHIVE: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
