This chapter engages with Raymond Tallis’ book Of Time and Lamentation: Reflections on Transience. Much of Tallis’ book is concerned with metaphysics, and we will endorse some of his key claims here, especially those that are critical of the treatments of time in scientific naturalism, albeit raising some questions about his own treatment of the flow of experience and temporal passage. Contrary to Tallis, however, we will outline a different response to lived temporal experience which is not as committed to human exceptionalism, elaborating a view that one of us has previously called “temporal naturalism” but which pertains to other metazoa to a significant extent (which Tallis denies). In addition, we will examine his remarks on the tendency of visual perceptual experience to lead to spatializing/naturalist treatments of time, considering other ways of approaching the problem, inspired by work in psychodynamics and via psychedelic experiences.

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Temporal Naturalism, Animality, and Seeing-Time

  • Jack Reynolds,
  • Riccardo Miceli McMillan

摘要

This chapter engages with Raymond Tallis’ book Of Time and Lamentation: Reflections on Transience. Much of Tallis’ book is concerned with metaphysics, and we will endorse some of his key claims here, especially those that are critical of the treatments of time in scientific naturalism, albeit raising some questions about his own treatment of the flow of experience and temporal passage. Contrary to Tallis, however, we will outline a different response to lived temporal experience which is not as committed to human exceptionalism, elaborating a view that one of us has previously called “temporal naturalism” but which pertains to other metazoa to a significant extent (which Tallis denies). In addition, we will examine his remarks on the tendency of visual perceptual experience to lead to spatializing/naturalist treatments of time, considering other ways of approaching the problem, inspired by work in psychodynamics and via psychedelic experiences.