The Present's Uniqueness. (2nd February 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dolev, Yuval
• Is Part Of: Philosophical investigations. Volume 45:Number 1(2022)
• Page Start: 3
• Page End: 20
• Publication Date: 2021-02-02
• Subjects: Philosophy -- Periodicals; 100
• DOI: 10.1111/phin.12304
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0190-0536

Abstract

Abstract: 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.