Why do people represent time as dynamical? An investigation of temporal dynamism and the open future.

Deflationists hold that it does not seem to us, in experience, as though time robustly passes. There is some recent empirical evidence that appears to support this contention. Equally, empirical evidence suggests that we naïvely represent time as dynamical. Thus deflationists are faced with an expla...

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Publicado en:Philosophical Studies Vol. 180; no. 5/6; pp. 1717 - 1743
Autores principales: Latham, Andrew J., Miller, Kristie
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Publicado: Springer Nature Jun2023
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