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Giovanni Merlo, "Psychological eternalism and the rationalization challenge"
Wednesday 5 Oct 2022 ⋅ 15:30 – 17:00
Eastern Australia Time - Sydney
Philosophy Seminar RoomSimulcast via
Zoom: ttps://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/87937027507Psychological eternalism
is the view that psychological contents are eternally true, if true at all.
A familiar challenge for psychological eternalists is that of explaining
how psychological attitudes directed at ‘eternal’ contents can rationalize
timely action. When one ducks to avoid being hit by a ball, one does so on
the basis of a justified belief that the ball is approaching. But, on the
face of it, the content of such a belief is only temporarily true, if true
at all – and it is not clear how any 'eternal' content could play the same
rationalizing role. Many psychological eternalists think that this
challenge can be met by appealing to indexical ways of thinking about time
– most notably, the indexical way of thinking we ordinarily express using
‘now’. I will argue that, for this kind of response to carry conviction,
psychological eternalists need to provide an account of how the indexical
way of thinking associated with, e.g., ‘now’ can – together with the rest
of the agent’s beliefs, desires, intentions, etc. – motivate him or her to
act in the relevant way. I will then explore some possible attempts to
provide such an account and explain why they fail.
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