The Openness of the Future: A Phenomenological Account

ABSTRACT This article develops a phenomenological account to characterize the openness of the future. More specifically, showing that phenomenological experience is necessary to derive the belief that the future is open by adopting a realist reading of phenomenology where our experience can be used to speculate beyond the thought-world correlation postulated by Quentin Meillassoux and show that this openness is best captured as an indeterminacy of the future itself. This indeterminacy of the future is the indeterminacy of which events are actualized or made to happen out of all the potential events. Here, our phenomenological experience allows us to feel what it is like to have the ability to participate in an event and make it happen. We can then generalize such ability to all other objects even inanimate ones. As a result, we have a phenomenological but non-anthropocentric account of the openness of the future.