John Dewey’s Radical Temporalism

The author presents John Dewey’s mature account of temporal continuity, showing how position can be identified as a form radical temporalism. Even at the most elemental level (that subatomic particles), natural existence is for such temporalist an irreducibly affair. While he focuses primarily on “Time and Individuality” (1940), supplements his by drawing upon Experience Nature (1925), “Events Future” (1926), to lesser extent, other texts. In magnum opus, Dewey draws crucial distinction between quality seriality. essay published following year, insists, contra C. D. Broad, qualitative heterogeneity being intrinsic trait even thinnest slice tem-poral continuum. units flux are neither “eternal immu-table”, nor qualitatively homogenous. They also exhibit from-to-through structure, with dimensions time defined these terms (pastness from which, futurity toward presentness through which). By relating seriality well central claims made in Individuality”, brings into clear focus contours