Accueil > Séminaires/Colloques > Archives > Séminaires > 2012-2013 > CPR > April 16 : Vasilis Tsompanidis (IJN)
Mardi 16 avril 2013 de 16h30 à 18h30 :
Institut Jean-Nicod, ENS, 29, rue d’Ulm 75005 paris, Salle de réunion, RDC.
Vasilis Tsompanidis (Institut Jean-Nicod)
"Accounting for ’now’-thoughts"
Abstract :
In this talk I will argue against two traditional accounts of thoughts whose expression would involve the term ‘now’. A presentist explanation based on tensed facts or properties faces problems accounting for (i) ‘now’ thoughts that are about a temporally extended present, and (ii) the time it takes for our brain to process sensory information. Hugh Mellor’s B-theoretic reply based on the tenseless properties of tensed thought tokens cannot explain the continuous updating of our ‘now’ thoughts, and why decisions based on them seem rational. I propose an alternative account based on the mental files framework, and discuss how it might be developed in order to solve these issues.