Temporal dynamism and the persisting stable self

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10692014
AutoresAndrew J Latham (0000-0001-8639-8053, Aarhus University), Kristie Miller (0000-0002-5092-8419, The University of Sydney, autor de correspondencia), Shira Yechimovitz (Tel Aviv University Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas)
Año2025
Volumen75
Número3
Páginas999-1025
Fecha de publicación2025-06-12
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/pq/pqae052
OpenAlexW4399355712
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas46

Empirical evidence suggests that a majority of people believe that time robustly passes and that many also report that it seems to them, in experience, as though time robustly passes. Non-dynamists deny that time robustly passes, and many contemporary non-dynamists—deflationists—even deny that it seems to us as though time robustly passes. Non-dynamists, then, face the dual challenge of explaining why people have such beliefs and make such reports about their experiences. Several philosophers have suggested the stable-self explanation, according to which what partly explains one or both of the explananda is that people believe themselves to have a stable persisting self that is imagined either as moving through time or as being stationary with time moving around it. This paper empirically investigates this explanation. We found, however, no evidential support for the stable-self explanation, leaving the non-dynamist but also, we will argue, the dynamist with an extant explanatory challenge

Cognitive psychology · Dual (grammatical number) · Dynamism · Economics · Epistemology · Extant taxon · Face (sociological concept) · Positive economics · Social science · Sociology · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology