# temporal experience **Opening (not a real abstract):** step out o f my house into the m o r n i n g air and feel the cool breeze on my face. I feel the freshness of the cool breeze now, and, as the breeze dies down, I notice that time is passing—I need to start walking or I will be late for class. We all know what it is like to have these sorts of experiences. Reflection on the qualitative character of such experiences suggests that events occurring now have a characteristic property of nowness, responsible for a certain special "feel," and that events pass f r o m the future to the present and then into the past. The question that I want to explore is whether we should take this suggestion to support an antireductionist ontology of time, that is, whether we should take it to support an ontology that includes a primitive, monadic property of nowness, responsible for the special feel of events in the present, and a relation **Authors:** [[Laurie Paul]]