# Time and Tense in Perceptual Experience **Opening (not a real abstract):** I hear a melody; I feel raindrops running down my face; I see a car approaching a set of traffic lights, then I see it remaining stationary for some time. In each of these experiences, I am directly perceptually aware of things unfolding in time in a certain way. In what follows, I will call this aspect of perceptual experience “temporal experience”.1 From a philosophical point of view, we can distinguish between three different kinds of question one might ask about temporal experience: (1) A metaphysical question:2 which accounts of the nature of time are consistent with the existence of temporal experience? (2) A psychological question:3 which kinds of information-processing mechanism can explain the occurrence of temporal experience? (3) A phenomenological question: how should we best describe the content **Authors:** [[Hoerl]]