Temporal dynamism and the persisting stable self

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ID10692014
AutoresAndrew J Latham (0000-0001-8639-8053, Aarhus University), Kristie Miller (0000-0002-5092-8419, The University of Sydney, autor correspondente), Shira Yechimovitz (Tel Aviv University Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas)
Ano2025
Volume75
Fascículo3
Páginas999-1025
Data de publicação2025-06-12
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/pq/pqae052
OpenAlexW4399355712
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências 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