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. Author note: Peter K. McInerney is Professor of Philosophy at Oberlin College.
- ISBN10 1566390109
- ISBN13 9781566390101
- Publish Date 15 December 1992 (first published 8 February 1991)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 16 February 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English