The Personalized A-Theory of Time and Perspective

The Personalized A-Theory of Time and Perspective

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A-theorists and B-theorists debate whether the "Now" is metaphysically distinguished from other time slices.Analogously, one may ask whether the "I" is metaphysically distinguished from other perspectives.Few philosophers would rubbermaid 8 gallon trash can answer the second question in the affirmative.An exception is Caspar Hare, who has devoted two papers and a book to arguing for such a positive answer.

In this paper, I argue that those who answer the first question in the affirmative---A-theorists---should also answer the second question in the affirmative.This is because key arguments in favor of the A-theory are more effective as arguments in favor of the resulting Jeans combined position, and key arguments against the A-theory are ineffective against the combined position.