ABSTRACT
This chapter defends two theses: we correctly identify B-theoretic passage but are in error concerning our putative A-theoretic phenomenology. The detector and multidetector arguments, including their physicalist assumption, are approved. Yet this does not disprove the existence of passage altogether. Duration may be assimilated into passage. There are changes within durations that constitute our experience of time’s passing. It is argued that instant perceptions do not give us the notion of change, but for us to have experience of change, memory and inferences are required. Our misdescription of A-theoretic passage phenomenology is due to the ubiquity of passage metaphors in language and the evolutionary history of our species. This broadly evolutionary view reinforces the perspectival nature of tense, like the ‘now,’ and so provides additional reasons against presentist metaphysics, which relies on objective tense.
