Call For Papers: Philosophy of Time
MANUSCRITO: International Journal of Philosophy
is planning to devote a special issue to the Philosophy of Time. We invite submissions from all areas of Philosophy related to Time and Time Experience. The guest editor will be Emiliano Boccardi (State University of Campinas).
The deadline for the initial submission is 30 June 2016. Accepted papers will be published in 2016. Formatting instructions for submissions can be found at: https://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=0100-6045&lng=en&nrm=iso (click “Instructions for Authors”). All submissions for this issue should be made through MANUSCRITO Editorial Manager (athttps://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/man-scielo).
Contact: emiliano.boccardi@gmail.com
Confirmed invited contributions:
Mauro Dorato, Phil Dowe, Robin Le Poidevin, Peter Ludlow, Ulrich Meyer, Kristie Miller, Nathan Oaklander, Francesco Orilia, Steven Savitt, Giuliano Torrengo
In perceptual experience, we appear to be immediately acquainted with the temporal structure of the world: we do perceive objects and events as changing, or as having different properties at different times. We take different attitudes towards the times and the events that are past, and those that are future. We take the past to be fixed (unchangeable) and the future somehow open. We have memories of the past but not of the future. We fear death but not the seemingly symmetric phenomenon of our prenatal nonexistence. Finally, we think that which time is present is incessantly changing, so that times which were once in the distant future “approach us”, become present and then immediately past, receding ever since into the more and more distant past. Does all this reflect how things really are? Does time really pass? If it does, what makes it true that it does? And if it does not pass, what makes it seem like it passes? Since the dawn of western thought, these questions have baffled philosophers, and a clear and shared understanding of time has eluded us till the present day. In spite of the many intuitive reasons for believing that time passes, and that tense distinctions reflect objective, mind-independent features of reality, the coherence of this idea has been challenged on different grounds, since at least the times of Presocratic philosophy. Indeed, by the first half of last Century, primarily as a consequence of the fast and wide spreading acceptance of Einstein‘s theory of relativity, many (if not most) scientists and analytic philosophers became convinced that passage and tense are not real, that they depend on the perspectives of conscious beings such as ourselves. Today, the philosophical arena is still divided between those who think that tense and passage are real and those who don't. The general aim of this issue is to bring together (for the first time in South America) contributions from all areas of the philosophy of time. These include, but are not limited to, contributions from metaphysics, phenomenology, philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind.
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