Time Continuum and Time Consciousness
Final Report Abstract
The main purpose of the project was to develop a new position within the current, analytic debate about the relationship between metaphysics and experience of time, thereby doing justice to the continuity of our temporal awareness. The guiding assumption was that the continuity of time can only be adequately understood with Kant, namely as being grounded in consciousness. In particular, continuously enduring processes (like melodies or rotation) have been considered, which provoked in the literature the ‘paradox of temporal awareness’: How can it be explained that one perceives, within the present moment, a process which must be considered as lasting over an interval of time? Then, the crucial move of the project collaborator has been to take into account Kant’s conception of successive synthesis. Such a synthesis Kant needs firstly in mathematical cognition, in order to construct geometrical figures in the pure intuition of space. The application of successive synthesis to the empirical cognition of enduring processes offers a distinction between transcendental and empirical conditions for it. This, finally, leads to a way Kant would solve the paradox of temporal awareness, which establishes an interesting, new option for the current debate.
Publications
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Time and the continuum. An introduction to the problem(s). Philosophy Kitchen - Rivista Di Filosofia Contemporanea, (13), 7-16.
Garibbo, M.
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Vortrag „What is special about time? Kant on inner sense and the temporal transparancy of experience“, Workshop „Time & Consciousness“, 31.08.– 02.09.2022, Imperia/Italien
Garibbo, M.
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Different Times Cannot Be Simultaneous. An Interpretation of the Fourth Argument from the Metaphysical Exposition of the Concept of Time. The Court of Reason, 495-504. De Gruyter.
Garibbo, Marcello
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„Still there. Perceiving objects persisting in the absence of change“, 14.09.2022, Sektionsvortrag bei GAP11, HU Berlin.
Marcello Garibbo
