ABSTRACT
In this chapter I defend some central phenomenological insights regarding the connection between temporality and the ‘minimal self’ against strong versions of naturalism that aim to eliminate or reduce both to non-temporal properties. My weak claim is that the phenomenological arguments enable an improved version of the irreducibility claims characteristic of liberal naturalism as concerns the first-person perspective (exemplified here by Lynne Baker’s recent work). My stronger claim is that when combined with extra-phenomenological considerations deriving from empirical science, they also suggest a prima facie case for metaphysical irreducibility and loom as the key stumbling block for scientific naturalism today.
