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Giovanni Merlo, "Psychological eternalism and the rationalization challenge"
Wednesday 5 Oct 2022 ⋅ 15:30 – 17:00
Eastern Australia Time - Sydney



Philosophy Seminar RoomSimulcast via  
Zoom: ttps://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/87937027507Psychological eternalism  
is the view that psychological contents are eternally true, if true at all.  
A familiar challenge for psychological eternalists is that of explaining  
how psychological attitudes directed at ‘eternal’ contents can rationalize  
timely action. When one ducks to avoid being hit by a ball, one does so on  
the basis of a justified belief that the ball is approaching. But, on the  
face of it, the content of such a belief is only temporarily true, if true  
at all – and it is not clear how any 'eternal' content could play the same  
rationalizing role. Many psychological eternalists think that this  
challenge can be met by appealing to indexical ways of thinking about time  
– most notably, the indexical way of thinking we ordinarily express using  
‘now’. I will argue that, for this kind of response to carry conviction,  
psychological eternalists need to provide an account of how the indexical  
way of thinking associated with, e.g., ‘now’ can – together with the rest  
of the agent’s beliefs, desires, intentions, etc. – motivate him or her to  
act in the relevant way. I will then explore some possible attempts to  
provide such an account and explain why they fail.

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