The Illusions of Time
Philosophical and Psychological Essays on Timing and Time Perception
Editors: Arstila, V., Bardon, A., Power, S., Vatakis, A. (Eds.)
Free Preview- Offers an interdisciplinary examination of our perception of time through the study of temporal illusions
- Demonstrates how valuable studies on timing and time perception are to furthering research on cognition and perception
- Explores the role cognition plays in explaining temporal illusions
Buy this book
- About this book
-
This edited collection presents the latest cutting-edge research in the philosophy and cognitive science of temporal illusions. Illusion and error have long been important points of entry for both philosophical and psychological approaches to understanding the mind. Temporal illusions, specifically, concern a fundamental feature of lived experience, temporality, and its relation to a fundamental feature of the world, time, thus providing invaluable insight into investigations of the mind and its relationship with the world. The existence of temporal illusions crucially challenges the naïve assumption that we can simply infer the temporal nature of the world from experience. This anthology gathers eighteen original papers from current leading researchers in this subject, covering four broad and interdisciplinary topics: illusions of temporal passage, illusions and duration, illusions of temporal order and simultaneity, and the relationship between temporal illusions and the cognitive representation of time.
- About the authors
-
Valtteri Arstila is a Collegium Researcher at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies and the Department of Philosophy, University of Turku, Finland. His research focuses on the philosophy and psychology of subjective time, time consciousness, cognitive penetration, and artificial intelligence.
Adrian Bardon is Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University, USA. He is the author of A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time (2013) and The Truth about Denial: Bias and Self-Deception in Science, Politics, and Religion (2019).
Sean Power is a philosopher researching time, illusion, perception, and epistemology. He is a research affiliate at the University College Cork, Ireland, whose works include Philosophy of Time and Perceptual Experience (2018) and Philosophy of Time: A Contemporary Introduction (forthcoming).
Argiro Vatakis is Assistant Professor at the Psychology Department, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Greece. She is the Editor-In-Chief for the journal Timing and Time Perception, and the founder of the Timing Research Forum.
- Reviews
-
“The book The Illusions of Time is very well-structured and this structure helps understanding enormously. … Even if you are not a psychologist, neuroscientist or philosopher, all the contributions herein are understandable; the illustrations are particularly illuminating. … It is certainly not intended to be a conclusion, but rather an inventory of what certain sciences know at present. That is exactly what the book is good for, to question what we take for granted when talking about ‘time.’” (Kerstin Cuhls, Kronoscope, Issue 21, 2021)
- Table of contents (18 chapters)
-
-
One Thing After Another: Why the Passage of Time Is Not an Illusion
Pages 3-15
-
Does It Really Seem to Us as Though Time Passes?
Pages 17-33
-
The Dynamic Block Universe and the Illusion of Passage
Pages 35-51
-
The Perception of Duration and the Judgment of the Passage of Time
Pages 53-67
-
The Temporal Oddball Effect and Related Phenomena: Cognitive Mechanisms and Experimental Approaches
Pages 71-89
-
Table of contents (18 chapters)
Recommended for you
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
-
- Book Title
- The Illusions of Time
- Book Subtitle
- Philosophical and Psychological Essays on Timing and Time Perception
- Editors
-
- Valtteri Arstila
- Adrian Bardon
- Sean Power
- Argiro Vatakis
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-22048-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-22048-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-22047-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-22050-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXVIII, 374
- Number of Illustrations
- 21 b/w illustrations
- Topics
