Feel the flow.

The experience of temporal flow is, for many, the central-if not the only-reason for believing an A-theory of time. Recently, however, B-theorists have argued that experience does not, in fact, favor the A-theory. Call such an argument: a debunking argument. The goal of the present paper is to defen...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 194; no. 2; pp. 609 - 631
Autor principal: Baron, Sam
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Feb2017
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Sumario:The experience of temporal flow is, for many, the central-if not the only-reason for believing an A-theory of time. Recently, however, B-theorists have argued that experience does not, in fact, favor the A-theory. Call such an argument: a debunking argument. The goal of the present paper is to defend the A-theory against two prominent versions of the debunking argument.