Time and Experience - Couverture rigide

Mcinerney, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0877227527 ISBN 13 : 9780877227526

Editeur : Temple University Press,U.S., 1991

Synopsis

This book is the only contemporary, systematic study of the relationship of time and conscious experience. Peter K. Mclnerney examines three tightly interconnected issues: how we are able to be conscious of time and temporal entities, whether time exists independently of conscious experience, and whether the conscious experiencer exists in time in the same way that ordinary natural objects are thought to exist in time. Insight is drawn from the views of major phenomenological and existential thinkers on these issues.

Building on a detailed explication and critique of the views of Kant, Husserl, Heidegger, and Sartre, Mclnerney develops and defends his own positions. He argues that a revised version of Husserl's three-feature theory of time-consciousness provides the best explanation of our awareness of temporal features, but that an independently real time is necessary to explain our experience of temporal passage. He also shows that human existence has some special temporal features in addition to those it shares with other entities. Time-consciousness, the conscious exercise of powers, and personal identity through time require that any temporal part of human existence be defined by and "reach across" to earlier and later parts.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Peter K. McInerney is Professor of Philosophy at Oberlin College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0877227527
• ISBN 13: 9780877227526
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 277
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible