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No doing without time

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2019

Shen Pan  and
Peter Carruthers
Shen Pan
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD20742. shenpan@umd.edupcarruth@umd.eduhttps://sites.google.com/site/theshenpanhttp://faculty.philosophy.umd.edu/pcarruthers/
Peter Carruthers
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD20742. shenpan@umd.edupcarruth@umd.eduhttps://sites.google.com/site/theshenpanhttp://faculty.philosophy.umd.edu/pcarruthers/
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Abstract

Hoerl & McCormack claim that animals don't represent time. Because this makes a mystery of established findings in comparative psychology, there had better be some important payoff. The main one they mention is that it explains a clash of intuition about the reality of time's passage. But any theory that recognizes the representational requirements of agency can do likewise.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 42 , 2019 , e270
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