Presentism, eternalism, and phenomenal change
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Presentism, eternalism, and phenomenal change
Normally, when we notice a change taking place, our conscious experience has a corresponding quality of phenomenal change. Here it is argued that one’s experience can have this quality at or during a time when there is no change in which phenomenal properties one instantiates. This undermines a number of otherwise forceful arguments against leading metaphysical theories of change, but also requ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Synthese
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0039-7857,1573-0964
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-009-9493-0