Abstract: This chapter explores an important distinction between two kinds of mental representation: that between ‘egocentric’ representation, which reflects the subject's own position in space and time, and ‘objective’ representation, which does not, but takes as it were a ‘God's eye’ view of reality. Is it clear, however, that this distinction can be applied to our representation of time? The chapter discusses this question, and introduces two metaphysical views of time: the A-theory, according to which time passes; and the B-theory, according to which it does not.

Keywords: egocentric, objective, space, passage of time, A-theory, B-theory,