scholarly journals Belief in robust temporal passage (probably) does not explain future-bias

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Latham ◽  
Kristie Miller ◽  
Christian Tarsney ◽  
Hannah Tierney
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Passage

Memory, Consciousness, and Time in Nabokov's Lolita

KronoScope ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Hasty
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Passage

AbstractIn his "Confession of a White Widowed Male," Humbert Humbert, the fictional narrator of Nabokov's Lolita, writes: "I am not concerned with so-called 'sex' at all." In the context of a narrative that centers on his pedophilia, it is difficult to take this assertion seriously. Yet if we do, we come to appreciate that Humbert's sexuality is emblematic of a distinctly modernist response to the perennial question of how to counter temporal passage and the inevitable loss attendant on it. Nabokov's configuration of memory, consciousness, and time in Lolita shows how passage itself might be engaged in the creative enterprise of resisting loss.

Time and Temporal Content

2019 ◽  
pp. 72-105
Author(s):  
Christopher Peacocke
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Passage ◽  
Temporal Concepts ◽  
Present Tense ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Representation Of Time

This chapter presents a metaphysics-first treatment of time and temporal concepts and language, opposed to all forms of subjectivism about time. It defends phenomenal externalism about time, and also aims to explain away temptations to subjectivism about time. It argues that we cannot explain the distinction between mere sensitivity to time and representation of time in terms of perceptual constancies. Nor can we explain it in terms of mere sensitivity to time that is coordinated with other genuinely representational states and capacities. A different theory of the distinction is developed, labelled representational preservation, which has to do with the preservation and updating of representations over time. An account of three different kinds of present-tense content in experience is developed. The correct characterization of the kinds can explain away some metaphysical illusions about time and the experience of temporal passage.

The Problem of Time's Passage

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-36
Author(s):  
Cameron D. Brewer
Keyword(s):  
Apparent Motion ◽  
Physical Theory ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Temporal Passage ◽  
Privileged Status ◽  
History Of

While the B-theory of time seems to fit with the current physical theory, it also seems to require treating temporal passage as an illusion. The aim of this article is to show that by understanding cases of apparent motion in a particular way, one can maintain the B-theory while also retaining the privileged status that the phenomenon of temporal passage plays in human experience. However, to understand these cases correctly, one should turn to arguments in the history of philosophy. More specifically, arguments from Russell, Kant and Hume can be used to make the B-theory more plausible.

scholarly journals Analysis of Data Collected at Control Room Full Scope Simulator at Dukovany Nuclear Power Plant

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-22
Author(s):  
Kateřina Kozlová ◽  
Karla Barčová ◽  
Jan Kubíček
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Computer Program ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Human Factor ◽  
Final Evaluation ◽  
Primary Circuit ◽  
Control Room ◽  
Temporal Passage

Abstract This article describes a computer program that will be used by experts to analyze human factor reliability when analyzing data obtained during the training of operators on a nuclear power plant's control room simulator. The program was applied to data collected during the training of a scenario called Rupture of the Hot Loop of the Primary Circuit (250 t/h). Based on the comparison of charts, temporal passage through the scenario, or by personal participation in the training, analysts evaluate the successful passing of the practice scenario and propose final recommendations. The article also describes the criteria for successfully passing the practiced scenario and its final evaluation.

scholarly journals Temporal Passage and Temporal Parts

Noûs ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
L. Nathan Oaklander
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Passage ◽  
Temporal Parts

Do we really experience temporal passage?

Metascience ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-266
Author(s):  
R. D. Ingthorsson
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Passage

The Myth of Temporal Passage

2000 ◽  
pp. 218-258
Author(s):  
William Lane Craig
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Passage

scholarly journals Explaining temporal qualia

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt Farr
Keyword(s):  
Motion Perception ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Philosophical Problem ◽  
Explanatory Role ◽  
Temporal Passage

AbstractExperiences of motion and change are widely taken to have a ‘flow-like’ quality. Call this ‘temporal qualia’. Temporal qualia are commonly thought to be central to the question of whether time objectively passes: (1) passage realists take temporal passage to be necessary in order for us to have the temporal qualia we do; (2) passage antirealists typically concede that time appears to pass, as though our temporal qualia falsely represent time as passing. I reject both claims and make the case that passage-talk plays no useful explanatory role with respect to temporal qualia, but rather obfuscates what the philosophical problem of temporal qualia is. I offer a ‘reductionist’ account of temporal qualia that makes no reference to the concept of passage and argue that it is well motivated by empirical studies in motion perception.

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