Seminars of Philosophy of Perception, Mind, and Language

The hyper-Russellian skeptic is someone who thinks that only one of all your experiences was, is, and will ever be conscious. Which one? This very one you are having now. Before you always have been a zombie, and you will always be a zombie after. In the present literature on the metaphysics of passage of time, there is disagreement on whether our feeling that time passes – the “dynamic flavor” of our ordinary experience – provides support to the A-theory, i.e. the thesis that the passage of time is an objective feature of reality. Lately, several philosophers have argued against that idea. In this paper I want to push this line of reasoning further, by exploiting the hyper-Russellian scenario against the A-theory of time.