Skip to main content
Book cover

Philosophy and Psychology of Time

  • Book
  • © 2016

Overview

  • Integrates philosophical and psychological research on time
  • Presents accessible overviews of the common ground on a given topic
  • Provides original contributions to current debates concerning time

Part of the book series: Studies in Brain and Mind (SIBM, volume 9)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. The Concept of Time in Philosophy and Psychology

  2. Presence

  3. Continuity and Flow of Time in Mind

  4. The Timing of Experiences

  5. Time and Intersubjectivity

Keywords

About this book

This book is an edited collection of papers from international experts in philosophy and psychology concerned with time. The collection aims to bridge the gap between these disciplines by focussing on five key themes and providing philosophical and psychological perspectives on each theme.

The first theme is the concept of time. The discussion ranges from the folk concept of time to the notion of time in logic, philosophy and psychology. The second theme concerns the notion of present in the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and psychology. The third theme relates to continuity and flow of time in mind. One of the key questions in this section is how the apparent temporal continuity of conscious experience relates to the possibly discrete character of underlying neural processes. The fourth theme is the timing of experiences, with a focus on the perception of simultaneity and illusions of temporal order. Such effects are treated as test cases for hypotheses about the relationship between the subjective temporal order of experience and the objective order of neural events. The fifth and the final theme of the volume is time and intersubjectivity. This section examines the role of time in interpersonal coordination and in the development of social skills.

The collection will appeal to both psychologists and philosophers, but also to researchers from other disciplines who seek an accessible overview of the research on time in psychology and philosophy.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

    Bruno Mölder

  • Department of Behavioral Sciences and Philosophy, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

    Valtteri Arstila

  • Department of Communication and Psychology, University of Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark

    Peter Øhrstrøm

About the editors

Bruno Mölder is a Senior Research Fellow of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Tartu. He works mainly in the philosophy of mind, focusing on time consciousness, social cognition and interpretivism. He has edited several philosophy books in Estonian and is an author of Mind Ascribed: An elaboration and defence of interpretivism (John Benjamins 2010). Valtteri Arstila is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Turku. His research focus is on neurophilosophy, especially on the issues of color philosophy, consciousness and time consciousness. He is a co-editor of Subjective Time: Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience of Temporality (MIT Press 2014). Peter Øhrstrøm is Professor of Information Science at the Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, Denmark. His research focus is on the logic of time, and in particular the philosophy of A.N. Prior. He is the author of a number of papers within thisfield, and together with Per Hasle he has published the book Temporal logic – From Ancient Ideas to Artificial Intelligence, Kluwer 1995.   

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Philosophy and Psychology of Time

  • Editors: Bruno Mölder, Valtteri Arstila, Peter Øhrstrøm

  • Series Title: Studies in Brain and Mind

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22195-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-22194-6Published: 13 November 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37193-1Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-22195-3Published: 02 November 2015

  • Series ISSN: 1573-4536

  • Series E-ISSN: 2468-399X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 271

  • Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Neurosciences

Publish with us