ABSTRACT
David Chalmers distinguishes the hard problem of consciousness from the easy problems of consciousness. Answering the easy questions might constrain the project of finding out what time is, as answering the question whether rainbows touch the ground might constrain the project of figuring out what rainbows are. The analogy between the philosophy of consciousness and the philosophy of time doesn't end there. Explicit avowals of anti-reductionism about time are less common, but that probably just reflects the fact that anti-reductionism about time is so widespread that people feel no need to avow it. In the philosophy of time, there is a long tradition of eliminativism, the latest manifestation of which is an argument that takes its cue from developments near the forefront of modern science. Reductive theories of time entail analogous supervenience claims and face an analogous threat.
