The Arbitrary Here Now
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21655415 |
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| Authors | Peter Hallowes (0000-0003-1534-5450, Box Hill Institute, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | S2 |
| Pages | 529-551 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Axiomathes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1122-1151 • E-ISSN: 1572-8390 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10516-022-09617-3 |
| OpenAlex | W4280617253 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
If we take the indexical, “I”, to be epistemologically identical across different contexts, as in, for example, it is the same “I” that at one moment observes, “I see a puddle of water on the floor”, and then, subsequently, exclaims, “I detect a leaking tap”, and, furthermore, we attribute not only self reference but self awareness in the use of the indexical, “I”, then a question arises as to how the “I” finds itself to be in reference to the speaker in one context and not another. We cannot look to the ingredients of the context that the “I” inhabits for the answer because, based upon the above assumptions, the identity, or character, of the “I” stands independently of the context of the speaker. The answer, I argue, requires both the admission of the unreality of space and time, as well as an explanation as to why we have a sense of the here and now despite space and time being unreal. To this end, I turn to the juxtaposition of Kant’s a priori forms of inner sense and outer sense to explain how the cognitive faculty arrives at a sense of time and place despite the declared unreality of time and space. To sustain this explanation in the face of the problem of localisation, I draw on the full implications of Kant’s transcendental idealism in which the properties of time and space are not only withdrawn from things as they exist externally to the mind but also from mental representations insofar as mental representations can be said to exist in themselves
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Indexicality · Linguistics · Ontology · Transcendental idealism · Transcendental number · Computer Science · Historical Philosophy and Science · History · Mathematics · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science
| Highly cited | No |
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