The Present's Uniqueness

Yuval Dolev

doi:10.1111/phin.12304

The Present's Uniqueness

Yuval Dolev

Department of Philosophy

Bar-Ilan University

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This paper offers an account of what makes the present unique. The present, it is argued, plays a constitutive role regarding succession, pastness and futurity, and is thus a pivot sustaining temporality. This is first shown with respect to experienced temporality, but the claim is then expanded to objective temporal relations and properties. A bulk of the argumentative effort goes towards establishing that, despite the crucial role experienced temporality plays in it, the result of the study is a Wittgensteinean kind of realism regarding objective time. That sets the proposal of this paper apart from both eternalism and presentism.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3-20
Number of pages	18
Journal	Philosophical Investigations
Volume	45
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/phin.12304
State	Published - Jan 2022

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Philosophy

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