The Images of Time

An Essay on Temporal Representation

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ID6535722
AuthorsRobin Le Poidevin (0000-0002-7185-9440)
Year2007
Pages192
Publication date2007-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Images of Time (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press, USA (PUBLISHER)
OpenAlexW1607073892
Open LibraryOL10146318M
ISBN9780199265893
LanguageEN
References cited76

Le Poidevin brings together issues in philosophy, psychology, aesthetics, and literary theory in examining the mechanisms underlying our representation of time in various media, and brings these to bear on metaphysical debates over the real nature of time. These debates concern which aspects of time are genuinely part of time's intrinsic nature, and which, in some sense, are mind-dependent. Arguably, the most important debate concerns time's passage: does time pass in reality, or is the division of events into past, present, and future simply a reflection of our temporal perspective--a result of the interaction between a "static" world and minds capable of representing it? Le Poidevin argues that, contrary to what perception and memory lead us to suppose, time does not really pass, and this surprising conclusion can be reconciled with the characteristic features of temporal experience

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Metaphysics · Metaphysics & ontology · Methodology · Philosophy of mind · Political science · Representation (politics) · Theory of Knowledge · Time · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Law · Multidisciplinary Warburg-centric Studies · Epistemology, theory of knowledge · Philosophy · Time and art · Time perception

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