Presentism, eternalism, and phenomenal change

Michael Pelczar

pp. 275-290

in: Marc Moffett (ed), Selected papers from the 36th annual meeting of the society for exact philosophy, Synthese 176 (2), 2010.

Abstract

Normally, when we notice a change taking place, our conscious experience has a corresponding quality of phenomenal change. Here it is argued that one’s experience can have this quality at or during a time when there is no change in which phenomenal properties one instantiates. This undermines a number of otherwise forceful arguments against leading metaphysical theories of change, but also requires these theories to construe change as a secondary quality, akin to color.