Type
Text
Type
Dissertation
Advisor
Manchester, Peter | Welton, Donn | Grim, Patrick | Brough, John.
Date
2012-05-01
Keywords
Philosophy--Metaphysics | Husserl, McTaggart, Mind-dependence, Phenomenology, Temporal becoming, Time
Department
Department of Philosophy
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/71394
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
I ask how Husserl's phenomenological investigations into time-consciousness can contribute to the contemporary debate within analytic metaphysics about the reality of the passage of time. I contend that Husserl's work, despite its radically different starting point, addresses the same basic problem about the intelligibility of time's flow at issue in the analytic debate. I argue that Husserl's sustained reflections on the experience of duration and succession show that the analytic metaphysicians would do well to abandon the strict dichotomy between objective reality and mind-dependence if they want to do justice to the nature of temporal becoming. I also identify shortcomings in Husserl's theory which are revealed in determining its implications for the analytic debate. The result is not only an improved understanding of the contours of the problem of time's flow, but also an appreciation for the surprising confluence of Husserlian phenomenology with a central problem in analytic metaphysics. | 151 pages
Recommended Citation
Roth, Brandon, "Experiencing Real Time: Husserl and the Debate About Tense" (2012). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 600.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/600