It is often assumed that an eternalist and a presentist will have the same emotional response to life's events because, regardless of one's metaphysical beliefs, we all have the same phenomenological experience of time passing and it is this experience that is relevant to emotional response. I question the assumption that beliefs about the metaphysics of time can have little impact on one's emotional responses and establish the position that scientific and metaphysical beliefs can offer succour.

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作为治疗的永恒主义：哀悼迈克尔·贝索的死

人们通常假设永恒论者和当下论者对生活事件有相同的情感反应，因为无论一个人的形而上学信仰如何，我们都有相同的时间流逝现象学经验，而正是这种经验与情感反应相关。我质疑关于时间形而上学的信念对一个人的情绪反应几乎没有影响的假设，并确立了科学和形而上学信念可以提供帮助的立场。