We live within time, but apart from it passing or lingering too long, how much do we understand the extent to which it pervades our lives? And what should we make of the claim based on physics that time does not pass, and therefore, that our experience of it doing so is really an illusion? Graeme A. Forbes (University of Kent) is a metaphysician of time (and much more!) who helps us gain some clarity on the human experience of time.
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Philosophy and the Physicists (Amazon)
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Albert Camus (The Plague)
Craig Callendar (Website)
E. M. Cioran (Wikipedia)
Martin Heidegger (Wikipedia)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Wikipedia)
Wilfrid Sellars (Wikipedia)
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