# Explaining Away Temporal Flow – Thoughts on Prosser’s “Experiencing Time” **Opening (not a real abstract):** Explaining Away Temporal Flow – Thoughts on Prosser’s “Experiencing Time”1 Geoffrey Lee Forthcoming in Inquiry, in a Symposium on “Experiencing Time” by Simon Prosser Penultimate Draft June 2017 The goal of Prosser’s book2 is to offer a comprehensive account of the different aspects of our awareness of time, in a way that debunks a view of temporal experience somewhat prevalent in the metaphysics literature. This view, which I’ll call “Perceptualism” says (1) that it is part of the content of perceptual experience (or maybe of our experience of time more generally), that time passes in a metaphysically strong sense: the present has a metaphysically privileged status, and time passes in virtue of changes in which events this “objective present” highlights (I’ll call this the “A-theory”, or “strong passage”), and **Authors:** [[geoff lee]]