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Time in Human Experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2004

Jonathan Bennett
Affiliation:
Canada

Abstract

A set of eight mini-discourses. 1. The conceivability of the physical world's running in the opposite temporal direction. 2. Augustine's reason for thinking this is not conceivable for the world of the mind. 3. Trying to imagine being a creature that lives atemporally. 4. Memory's need for causal input. 5. Acting in the knowledge that how one acts is strictly determined. 6. The Newcomb problem. 7. The idea that all voluntary action is intended to be remedial. 8. Haunted by the strangeness of the idea of the past qua past.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2004

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