Cognitive science has recently made some startling discoveries about temporal experience,
and these discoveries have been drafted into philosophical service. We survey recent …

Appeals to the 'common sense', or 'naïve', or 'folk'concept of time, and the purported
phenomenology as of time passing, play a substantial role in philosophical theorising about …

As a growing area of research, the philosophy of time is increasingly relevant to different
areas of philosophy and even other disciplines. This book describes and evaluates the most …

Why does time seem to flow in one direction? Can we influence the past? Is only the present
real? Does relativity conflict with our common understanding of time? Could science do …

Philosophical speculation about the nature of time has had a long tradition, with
contributions by many major philosophers, from Saint Augustine to Kant (eg. Smart, 1979). In …

People hold intuitive theories of the physical world, such as theories of matter, energy, and
motion, in the sense that they have a coherent conceptual structure supporting a network of …

A central debate in the current philosophical literature on temporal experience is over the
following question: do temporal experiences themselves have a temporal structure that …

Philosophers have long struggled to understand our perceptual experience of temporal
properties such as succession, persistence and change. Indeed, strikingly, a number have …

Most philosophers believe that we have experiences as of temporally extended phenomena
like change, motion, and succession. Almost all theories of time consciousness explain …

It is one of our ordinary beliefs that time passes. And it seems trivial to say that we think this
to be so because our experiences tell us so. I distinguish between these two ideas. More …