ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces a metaphysical debate about time, and explores the alleged connection with memory. The aspects of memory concerned with its role in structuring our perceptual experience, and its role in providing knowledge of our experiential pasts. And the metaphysical views of the nature of time those aspects (arguably) connect with concern the passage of time, the reality of the past, and the basis of time's direction. Along with the passage of time, and the (un)reality of the past, the fact that time appears to have a direction is one of the most-debated topics in the metaphysics of time. It can be conceded that not all cases of remembering constitute knowledge of the past, and that remembering does not entail having had past knowledge. The foregoing discussion has been an attempt to connect issues in the metaphysics of time with what was described as 'widespread beliefs about remembering'.
