ABSTRACT
In the same year that Martin Heidegger published Being and Time, the Anglo-Irish aeronautical engineer J. W. Dunne released his An Experiment with Time. Dunne would have much success with his aeronautical innovations, and though his theoretical musings on time would not have a philosophical impact, they would find their way into literature. The fact that Dunne posited precognition of events beyond the subjective, personal compass did not make his idea anymore compatible with C. D. Broad's materialistic outlook. Husserl was in line with Augustine's mediation on time, but Dunne seemed to court the temporal drama in H. G. Wells's The Time Machine. The fact that Dunne posited precognition of events beyond the subjective, personal compass did not make his idea anymore compatible with C. D. Broad's materialistic outlook. Dunne proposed a theory of consciousness which explained how the mind is stretched along a temporal continuum.
