Indiscriminability and Experience of Change
Indiscriminability and Experience of Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5350831 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ian Phillips (0000-0003-2932-8045, University College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 245 |
| Pages | 808-827 |
| Publication date | 2011-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9213.2011.703.x |
| OpenAlex | W1861805406 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
It is obvious both that some changes are too small for us to perceive and that we can perceive constant motion. Yet according to Fara, these two facts are in conflict, and one must be rejected. I show that conflict arises only from accepting a ‘zoëtrope conception’ of change experience, according to which change experience is analysed in terms of a series of very short‐lived sensory atoms, each lacking in dynamic content. On pain of denying the phenomenologically obvious, we must reject the zoëtrope conception. I offer an alternative account, according to which the dynamic content of our experience at short timescales is metaphysically dependent on the content of experience over longer timescales. Moreover, at short timescales such content is purely determinable
Classical mechanics · Constant (computer programming) · Content (measure theory) · Epistemology · Linguistics · Mathematical analysis · Metaphysics · Motion (physics) · Physics · Trope (literature) · Computer Science · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Philosophy, Science, and History · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |