Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Abstract

In the debate between Presentists and Eternalists, it's not uncommon to hear the former claim support for the intuitions of Common Sense. The latter might then consider Common Sense to be of little weight in the matter, but Baptiste Le Bihan (2018) has adopted another response, consisting of questioning whether Common Sense itself goes in the direction of presentism. It is therefore important to take a close look at Sens Commun's conception of time. A first step would be to establish that Common Sense has an endurantist conception of ordinary objects. But David Lewis (1986) has put forward a convincing argument against this interpretation. Starting again from Laurie Paul's (2016) analyses of the "enduring self", I shall endeavor to show that Sens Commun's conception of the conscious self can only be interpreted in an endurantist model, and even in an endurantist model granting an objective privilege to the present - that is, that the common experience of the self implies presentism.

Jean-Baptiste Guillon

Jean-Baptiste Guillon

Jean-Baptiste Guillon is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Nantes. A former assistant to Professor Tiercelin at the Collège de France, he is currently Profesor Ayudante Doctor at the Universidad de Navarra. His work lies at the crossroads of epistemology and metaphysics, and attempts to apply a metaphilosophy inspired by the Common Sense tradition to various metaphysical questions (metaphysics of Free Will, time, modality, universals, etc.). His publications include Philosophical Studies, Synthese and Philosophia Scientiae.