The Illusions of Time: Philosophical and Psychological Essays on Timing and Time Perception

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Valtteri Arstila, Adrian Bardon, Sean Enda Power, Argiro Vatakis
Springer Nature, Sep 26, 2019 - Science - 374 pages
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.
 

Contents

Part I The Passage of Time
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1 One Thing After Another Why the Passage of Time Is Not an Illusion
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2 Does It Really Seem to Us as Though Time Passes?
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3 The Dynamic Block Universe and the Illusion of Passage
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4 The Perception of Duration and the Judgment of the Passage of Time
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Part II Duration
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5 The Temporal Oddball Effect and Related Phenomena Cognitive Mechanisms and Experimental Approaches
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6 Why the Intrinsic Value of Hedonic Sensations Is Not Quantifiable
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Part III Simultaneity and Temporal Order
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11 Causality Guides Time Perception
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12 Getting Stuck in the Ordered Sequence Disrupted Temporal Processing in Patients with Schizophrenia and What It Tells Us About the Sense of Ti...
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13 When the Perception of a Synchronous World IsMostlyJust an Illusion
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Part IV Cognition and Representation of Temporal Phenomena
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14 Time Opined A Being in the Moment
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15 Temporal Binding and the PerceptionCognition Boundary
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16 Spatiotemporal Illusions Involving Perceived Motion
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7 The Temporal Dynamic of Emotion Effects on Judgment of Durations
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8 Hidden Duration TimeLag in the World and Mind
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9 Modulations in the Experience of Duration
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10 Against Illusions of Duration
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17 Perceptual Illusions Caused by Discrete Sampling
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18 Time Markers and Temporal Illusions
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Index
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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.

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