Reference synthesis
An editorial comparison of the route’s selected accounts and evidence.
A curated synthesis cannot be neutral or exhaustive. Follow the primary sources when an interpretation matters.
Finding the next step…
Read metaphysical, phenomenological and process accounts of temporality with careful textual reconstruction.
Practise reconstructing an argument before starting. The Critical thinking route helps; the selections here are short passages rather than complete difficult books.
A reconstructed argument and a comparison of lived time with physical time.
Start here if the background is new. Equivalent experience is enough.
Practise reconstructing a short argument before comparing difficult passages about existence and time.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy editors · reference
Temporal order, passage and competing questions
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Open the readingTime. Separate temporal order, passage and experience before choosing an argument to study.
Aristotle · book · -350
Aristotle on time, Augustine XI and Kant’s treatment of time
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Open the readingAugustine · book · 400
Aristotle on time, Augustine XI and Kant’s treatment of time
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Open the readingImmanuel Kant · book · 1781
Aristotle on time, Augustine XI and Kant’s treatment of time
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Open the readingPhysics, Book IV. Reconstruct the selected time argument and explain the role of motion or change.
Confessions, Book XI. Track the argument about time, memory and expectation without turning it into a measurement theory.
Critique of Pure Reason. Read the treatment of time in the Transcendental Aesthetic and state the argument’s scope.
Henri Bergson · book · 1889
Duration, anticipation and temporality passages
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Open the readingMartin Heidegger · book · 1927
Duration, anticipation and temporality passages
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Open the readingTime and Free Will. Distinguish lived duration from counted or spatially represented time.
Being and Time. Use a selected temporality passage to connect anticipation and practical involvement.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy editors · reference
Temporal experience, retention and anticipation
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Open the readingEdmund Husserl · book · 1928
Temporal experience, retention and anticipation
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Open the readingThe Experience and Perception of Time. Choose an experience-of-time example and test what your initial account explains.
The Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness. Track the distinctions among present experience, retention and anticipation.
Editorial perspectives based on selected works, rather than author-endorsed reading lists.
An editorial comparison of the route’s selected accounts and evidence.
A curated synthesis cannot be neutral or exhaustive. Follow the primary sources when an interpretation matters.
An editorial reconstruction using the selected work of Martin Heidegger.
This is not an author-endorsed syllabus. The reconstruction highlights selected works and may omit other commitments.
An editorial reconstruction using the selected work of Henri Bergson.
This is not an author-endorsed syllabus. The reconstruction highlights selected works and may omit other commitments.
An editorial reconstruction using the selected work of Gilles Deleuze.
This is not an author-endorsed syllabus. The reconstruction highlights selected works and may omit other commitments.
Background, different viewpoints, and further reading.
Reconstruct the selected time argument and explain the role of motion or change.
Aristotle on time, Augustine XI and Kant’s treatment of time
Track the argument about time, memory and expectation without turning it into a measurement theory.
Aristotle on time, Augustine XI and Kant’s treatment of time
Read the treatment of time in the Transcendental Aesthetic and state the argument’s scope.
Aristotle on time, Augustine XI and Kant’s treatment of time
Distinguish lived duration from counted or spatially represented time.
Duration, anticipation and temporality passages
Use a selected temporality passage to connect anticipation and practical involvement.
Duration, anticipation and temporality passages
Compare this account’s mechanism with the preceding reading; note where their predictions differ.
Full paper; methods and limitations
Define the terms of one selected argument before comparing it with a persistence account.
A selected argument about change and persistence
Use this account to revise your initial explanation and identify an unresolved question.
Selected chapters and argument
Reconstruct one selected process argument and explain how it treats change.
A selected argument about change and persistence
Compare this account’s mechanism with the preceding reading; note where their predictions differ.
Selected chapters and argument
Track the distinctions among present experience, retention and anticipation.
Temporal experience, retention and anticipation
Use this account to revise your initial explanation and identify an unresolved question.
Selected chapters and argument
Separate temporal order, passage and experience before choosing an argument to study.
Temporal order, passage and competing questions
Choose an experience-of-time example and test what your initial account explains.
Temporal experience, retention and anticipation
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Compare lived time with physical irreversibility while keeping their different questions visible.