讲座信息

题目：What Is Now? What Time Is Now?

主讲人：刘畅（中国人民大学哲学院副教授）

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时间：2023.5.8 19:00—20:30

方式：“北京大学哲学系”微信视频号直播

讲座简介

He drove a taxi. Nowhe drives a truck. So, must he be driving the truck right now? Must he, aslong as he’s working as a truck driver, keep driving his truck all day and all night? What do we speak of, when we speak of “now”? In this talk, some popular conceptions in the philosophy of time will be put under critical scrutiny: (1) The present (the “now”) is an instant, a time point with no length; (2) the “content” of the present is always an event, a happening, which constitutes a segment of a larger process; (3) what (time) is now, is determined by the passage of time (itself). The following points will be defended respectively: (1) The present may be a time period. “Now” is not an indivisible time-atom in the substantival sense. (2) What is now can be an event, a process, or a state. “Driving a truck now” – in the sense of being a truck driver – is neither an event nor something happening to him. (3) “Now”, among other temporal concepts, is not a name for any thing, but schemata under which we understand ways things being themselves. There are variety of ways of being, and accordingly there are multiple aspects of now-ness.

刘畅

刘畅，德国比勒费尔德大学哲学博士，中国人民大学哲学院副教授。目前主讲语言哲学和哲学德语课程。

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