Abstract

One of the key arguments for the A-theory of time is the argument from experience, which states that there are certain features of our experience (the fact that it is limited to the present, a present that we all share, and that it presents us with a constantly changing world). All these features, according to the argument, point to the objective passage of time. This chapter critically discusses this argument and shows how the characteristic temporal features of experience can be accommodated within the B-theory. En route, the doctrine of the specious present and the puzzle of motion perception are discussed.