ABSTRACT
Our experience of the present – over and above its manic character in postmodern culture – has long puzzled philosophers from many different traditions.1
On the one hand the present serves to join past and future and on the other hand it serves to separate them. A related puzzle concerns how the experiential present might be characterized in positive terms. For whilst the object of such experience can be described as that which is not past or future, we surely need some further account of what the present is in itself. Or is it the case that individually present, past and future can be sufficiently defined as negations of one another?
