Deppe S (2016)
Publication Type: Journal article, other
Publication year: 2016
Book Volume: 30
Pages Range: 107-124
Journal Issue: 2
URI: http://www.kriterion-journal-of-philosophy.org/kriterion/issues/Permanent/Kriterion-deppe-01.pdf
Open Access Link: http://www.kriterion-journal-of-philosophy.org/kriterion/issues/Permanent/Kriterion-deppe-01.pdf
Tenseless theorists assert that the relational structure of earlier/later is the essential structure of time. Using B-notions, so they think, we speak about time `as it is' in a metaphysical sense and hence from the outside of our subjective perspective on it. I suggest on the contrary that the relational structure of earlier/later is part of our own intellectual structuring within the access to temporal phenomena. Furthermore it is essentially characterized by the structure of juxtaposition which originates in spatial experience rather than in temporal. In order to show this I consult Henri Bergson's analysis of our temporal experience on the one hand and of our intellectual practice on the other hand. I will conclude that it is not unplausible to take the relational account of time to be more closely connected to the nature of our intellect than to the nature of time itself.
APA:
Deppe, S. (2016). The Mind-Dependence of the Relational Structure of Time (or: What Henri Bergson Would Say to B-theorists). Kriterion (Austria), 30(2), 107-124.
MLA:
Deppe, Sonja. "The Mind-Dependence of the Relational Structure of Time (or: What Henri Bergson Would Say to B-theorists)." Kriterion (Austria) 30.2 (2016): 107-124.
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