Against time: preliminary notes to an anarchic epistemology of times. (3rd July 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Fine, David
• Is Part Of: Time & mind. Volume 11:Number 3(2018)
• Page Start: 319
• Page End: 324
• Publication Date: 2018-07-03
• Subjects: Time -- archaeology -- phenomenology -- epistemology -- philosophy; Archaeology -- Periodicals; Cognition and culture -- Periodicals; 930.101
• DOI: 10.1080/1751696X.2018.1506010
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1751-696X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper questions the view that time, even as a concept, is fundamentally singular, universal and all-embracing. Instead it adopts then abandons a phenomenological approach to propose that there are any number or indeterminate sets of times, which in their turn cannot be collapsed into a coherently unified account of time. This thesis is backed up by a suite of three examples to indicate that when deployed as a means of archaeological enquiry, the acknowledgement of limitless types of time possesses the potential to reach realms of knowledge otherwise not obtainable through the examination of material remains.