Presentism, eternalism, and phenomenal change

نویسنده

  • Michael W. Pelczar
چکیده

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 requires these theories to construe change as a secondary quality, akin to color.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Synthese

دوره 176  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2010