Journal of Philosophical Research

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ABSTRACT: Defending the tenseless theory of time requires deal ing adequately with the experienee of temporal beeoming. The issue eenters on whether the defender of tenseless t ime ean provide an adequate analysis of the presenee of experience and the appropria teness of eertain of our atti tudes toward fu ture and past events. By responding to a reeent article, ' Pas sage and the Presenee of Experience ' , by H. Seott Hestevold, 1 shall at tempt to show that adequate analysis of tenseless time is possible. I n l he status of temporal becoming, temporal passage, or the transitory aspect of time is a paradigmatic metaphysical problem. It involves a prima facie conflict between reason and experience. The experience in question involves the passage of time; the "perception " of events flowing from the future into the present and from the present into the past. This experience is reflected in statements such as '1 can 't wait until the basketball sea son

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