PLEASE NOTE this is a sample reading list for the 2015-16 academic year
– precise seminar content may change from year to year.
Background readings
On the idea that we cannot perceive succession
Chuard, Philippe 2011: 'Temporal experiences and their parts'. Philosophers' Imprint 11 (11): 128.
Dainton, Barry 2010. 'Temporal consciousness.' The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall
2010 Edition).
Dunlop, Katherine 2009. 'The unity of time's measure': Kant's Reply to Locke. Philosophers'
Imprint 9 (4): 1-31.
Locke, John 1706: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, ed. Peter H. Nidditch. Oxford:
Clarendon Press 1975.
Reid, Thomas 1785: Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man: A Critical Edition, ed. D.R. Brookes
and K. Haakonssen. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2002.
Yaffe, Gideon 2011. 'Locke on consciousness, personal identity and the idea of duration.' Noûs 45
(3): 387-408.
On Husserl
Brough, John Barnett 1972: ‘The Emergence of an Absolute Consciousness in Husserl's Early
Writings on Time-Consciousness’. Man and World, 5, pp. 298-326.
Dainton, B. 2006: Stream of Consciousness: Unity and Continuity in Conscious Experience.
Routledge, ch. 6.
Gallagher, Shaun 1998: The Inordinance of Time. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.
Hoerl, Christoph 2013: ‘Husserl, the Absolute Flow, and Temporal Experience’. Forthcoming in
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 86, pp. 376–411.
Husserl, Edmund 1893-1917: On the Phenomenology of Consciousness of Internal Time (18931917), trans. John Barnett Brough. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991.
Kortooms, Toine 2002: Phenomenology of Time: Edmund Husserl’s Analysis of TimeConsciousness. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Miller, Izchak 1984: Husserl, Perception and Temporal Awareness. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Sokolowski, Robert 1974: Husserlian Meditations: How Words Present Things. Evanston, Ill.:
Northwestern University Press.
Contemporary intentionalists
Grush, Rick 2006: ‘How to, and How Not to, Bridge Computational Cognitive Neuroscience and
Husserlian Phenomenology of Time Consciousness’. Synthese, 153, pp. 417-50.
Grush, Rick 2007: ‘Time and Experience’, in Müller, Thomas (ed.) 2007: Die Philosophie der Zeit:
Neue analytische Ansätze. Frankfurt: Klostermann, pp. 27-44.
<http://mind.ucsd.edu/papers/!papers.html>
Horwich, Paul 1987: Asymmetries in Time: Problems in the Philosophy of Science. Cambridge, MA:
MIT Press.
Kiverstein, Julian 2010: ‘Making Sense of Phenomenal Unity: An Intentionalist Account of Temporal
Experience’, in Phemister, Kiverstein and Basile 2010, pp. 155-81.
Lee, Geoffrey forthcoming: 'Temporal Experience and the Temporal Structure of Experience.'
Philosophers' Imprint. <https://files.nyu.edu/gfl204/public/>
Tye, Michael 2003: Consciousnes and Persons: Unity and Identity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
On the idea of the specious present
Broad, C.D. 1923: Scientific Thought. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Fara, Delia Graff 2001: ‘Phenomenal Continua and the Sorites’. Mind, 110, pp. 905–35. (Originally
published under the name ‘Graff’)
James, William 1890: The Principles of Psychology, 2 Vols. London: Macmillan.
Phillips, Ian 2011: Indiscriminability and Experience of Change. The Philosophical Quarterly, 61,
pp. 808-27.
Russell, Bertrand 1915: ‘On the Experience of Time’. The Monist, 25, pp. 212–33.
Dummett, Michael 2012. 'Seeing things move'. In M. Frappier et al. (eds.). Analysis and
interpretation in the exact sciences. Springer.
Extensionalist accounts
Foster, John 1979: ‘In Self-Defence’, in Macdonald 1979, pp. 161-85.
Dainton, Barry 2006: Stream of Consciousness: Unity and Continuity in Conscious Experience, 2nd
edition. London: Routledge.
Dainton, Barry 2008: ‘Sensing Change’. Philosophical Issues, 18, pp. 362-84.
Hoerl, Christoph forthcoming: ‘Seeing Motion and Apparent Motion’. Forthcoming in European
Journal of Philosophy.
Hoerl, C. 2013. "'A succession of feelings, in and of itself, is not a feeling of succession'." Mind
122(486): 373-417.
Soteriou, M. (2013). The Mind's Construction: The Ontology of Mind and Mental Action. Oxford
University Press. Ch. 6.
Temporal experience and tense
Hoerl, Christoph 2009: ‘Time and Tense in Perceptual Experience’. Philosophers’ Imprint, 9, no.
12.
Almäng, Jan forthcoming. Tense as a feature of perceptual content. Journal of Philosophy.
<https://www.academia.edu/6766850/Tense_as_a_Feature_of_Perceptual_Content>
Paul, L. A. 2010. 'Temporal Experience.' Journal of Philosophy 107(7): 333-359.
Deng, N. (2013). "Our Experience of Passage on the B-Theory." Erkenntnis 78(4): 713-726.
Frischhut, A. M. (2013). "What Experience Cannot Teach Us About Time." Topoi: 1-13.
Hoerl, C. (2014). "Do we (seem to) perceive passage?" Philosophical Explorations 17(2): 188-202.
Temporal transparency
Phillips, I. (2014). "Experience of and in Time." Philosophy Compass 9(2): 131-144.
Frischhut, A. M. (forthcoming). "Diachronic unity and temporal transparency." Journal of
Consciousness Studies.
Phillips, I. (2014). The temporal structure of experience. Subjective time: The philosophy,
psychology, and neuroscience of temporality V. Arstila and D. Lloyd. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press:
139-158. Electronic version athttp://www.ianbphillips.com/papers.html
Soteriou, M. (2013). The Mind's Construction: The Ontology of Mind and Mental Action. Oxford
University Press. Ch. 4.
Balashov, Y. (2005). "Times of our lives: negotiating the presence of experience." American
Philosophical Quarterly 42(4): 295 - 309.