Romdenh-Romluc, K. (2022) Now-thoughts. European Journal of Philosophy, 30 (2). pp. 623-638. ISSN 0966-8373
Abstract
‘Now’-thoughts are often categorised alongside ‘I’-thoughts. The word ‘I’- (including its counterparts in other languages) and the thoughts typically expressed with it have long been a source of fascination for philosophers. ‘I’- seemingly behaves in peculiar ways, which many writers take to reflect some interesting features of the thoughts it typically expresses. Whilst the similarities between the behaviour of ‘I’- and ‘now’- have often been noted, the latter has received much less attention in the literature. In this paper, I will take some of the most influential ideas and frameworks that have been used to analyse ‘I’-thought and draw on phenomenological descriptions of temporal experience to provide an account of ‘now’- thought. I will argue that a certain important class of ‘now’-thoughts do not involve thinking about a particular time and predicating something of it, but instead merely involve registering the presence of events. I will end by sketching an account of how these claims might sit with a theory of the word ‘now’.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in European Journal of Philosophy. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of Philosophy (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 09 Sep 2021 10:47 |
Last Modified: | 03 Oct 2023 00:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/ejop.12717 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:177903 |