Abstract
Representing Time: An Essay on Temporality as Modality provides a thought provoking look at the nature of time and our representation of it in language and thought. Jaszczolt’s central concern is the foundation and interrelation of two potentially conflicting concepts of time: real time and internal time. As Jaszczolt understands it, the concept of real time is the concept of time given to us by modern physics according to which there is no moment that is objectively present and time does not flow. The concept of internal time is the concept of time given to us by everyday experience: ‘that there is something that we can univocally call the past, the present and the future’ and that time flows (5). The main claims of Jaszczolt’s book are summarized by what she calls the Thesis of Supervenience which is the conjunction of the following three claims: (i) internal time supervenes on a more basic concept of epistemic detachment, (ii) real time supervenes on probabilities of states of affairs and (iii) internal time indirectly supervenes on real time (14).
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