Common-sense temporal ontology: an experimental study.
Temporal ontology is the philosophical debate on the existence of the past and the future. It features a three-way confrontation between supporters of presentism (the present exists, the past and the future do not), pastism (the past and the present exist, the future does not), and eternalism (the p...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 202; no. 6; pp. 1 - 40 |
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Dec2023
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=173954991&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 173954991 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00397857 4LI jtl: Synthese issn: 00397857 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2023 vid: 202 iid: 6 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 173954991 10.1007/s11229-023-04323-y ppf: 1 ppct: 39 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 2.2MB tig: atl: Common-sense temporal ontology: an experimental study. aug: au: Graziani, Ernesto Orilia, Francesco Capitani, Elena Burro, Roberto affil: https://ror.org/0001fmy77 Department of Humanities, University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy https://ror.org/039bp8j42 Department of Human Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy sug: keyword: Common sense Eternalism Experimental philosophy Growing block theory Presentism Time ab: Temporal ontology is the philosophical debate on the existence of the past and the future. It features a three-way confrontation between supporters of presentism (the present exists, the past and the future do not), pastism (the past and the present exist, the future does not), and eternalism (the past, the present, and the future all exist). Most philosophers engaged in this debate believe that presentism is much more in agreement with common sense than the rival views; moreover, most of them believe that being in agreement with common sense is epistemically valuable for a philosophical view. We studied experimentally non-experts’ ideas pertaining to the domain of temporal ontology, i.e., as we called it, common-sense temporal ontology, focusing on the Italian population. We found that a non-overwhelming majority of participants (~64%) favoured presentism, while two significant minorities favoured pastism (~19%) and eternalism (~17%). We think that our findings provide some support, albeit weaker than expected, for the view that presentism is more in agreement with common sense than the rival positions. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Synthese is a copyright of Springer, 2023. All Rights Reserved. item: Synthese holder: Springer Nature dt: @attributes: year: 2023 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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