Abstract
Abstract
In this final chapter the author considers the interaction between theorizing about temporal experience and making hypotheses about the nature of time. The aim is to show how the overall picture of temporal experience sketched in the previous chapters does not require a dynamic universe, or an objective flow, and indeed sits better with a static, block universe view. The chapter presents and contrasts two competing models of temporal experience, based on the A-theoretic and B-theoretic metaphysics respectively: the wave model and the sunshine model. The author contends that the wave model falls short in explanatory power compared to the sunshine model. The chapter defends the latter against specific objections and unveils its more profound and unexpected consequences.
Publisher
Oxford University PressOxford