The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Temporal Experience (Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy)

Experience is inescapably temporal. But how do we experience time? Temporal experience is a fundamental subject in philosophy - according to Husserl, the most important and difficult of all. Its puzzles and paradoxes were of critical interest from the Early Moderns through to the Post-Kantians. After a period of relative neglect, temporal experience is again at the forefront of debates across a wealth of areas, from philosophy of mind and psychology, to metaphysics and aesthetics. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Temporal Experience is an outstanding reference source to the key debates in this exciting subject area and represents the first collection of its kind. Comprising nearly 30 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is organized into seven clear parts: , Ancient and early modern perspectives , Nineteenth and early twentieth-century perspectives , The structure of temporal experience , Temporal experience and the philosophy of mind , Temporal experience and metaphysics , Empirical perspectives , Aesthetics. Within each part, key topics concerning temporal experience are examined, including canonical figures such as Locke, Kant and Husserl; extensionalism, retentionalism and the specious present; interrelations between temporal experience and time, agency, dreaming, and the self; empirical theories of perceiving and attending to time; and temporal awareness in the arts including dance, music and film. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Temporal Experience is essential reading for students and researchers of philosophy of mind and psychology. It is also extremely useful for those in related fields such as metaphysics, phenomenology and aesthetics, as well as for psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Temporal Experience- Front cover The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Temporal Experience Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: the significance of temporal experience Part I: ancient and early modern perspectives Part II: nineteenth and early twentieth-century perspectives Part III: the structure of temporal experience Part IV: temporal experience and the philosophy of mind Part V: temporal experience and metaphysics Part VI: empirical perspectives Part VII: temporal experience and aesthetics References PART I: Ancient and early modern perspectives Chapter 1: How natural is a unified notion of time? Temporal experience in early Greek thought Introduction Lack of unification Consequences for temporal experience Notes References Chapter 2: Time and temporal experience in the seventeenth century Introduction Scholastic background Descartes and Newton The Experiential Turn: Hobbes, Locke and Berkeley Conclusion Abbreviations Notes References Further reading Chapter 3: Hume on temporal experience The Lockean background Hume’s Lockean arguments Compound impressions Succession of perceptions vs. perception of succession Notes References Further reading Chapter 4: Temporal experience in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason The Transcendental Aesthetic The Transcendental Analytic (I): Analogies of Experience The Transcendental Analytic (II): Refutation of Idealism and Transcendental Deduction Notes References PART II: Nineteenth and early twentieth-century perspectives Chapter 5: The Hodgsonian account of temporal experience Introduction Motivating his methodology Key features of a Hodgsonian account of temporal experience The empirical present in experience Two motions of the present, two directions of time Comparison with Husserl Conclusion Acknowledgements References Chapter 6: The wonder of time-consciousness The temporal object Duration The temporal modes of appearance The “now” The structure of time-consciousness The schematic interpretation A new approach The double intentionality of the absolute flow Notes References Further reading Chapter 7: Bergson on temporal experience and durée réelle Durée: a first look The cinematic universe Multiplicities Durée: Retentional or Extensional? Transitions, overlaps and intelligibility Conclusions Notes References Further reading Chapter 8: William Stern’s “Psychische Präsenzzeit” Presence-time Presence and the present Motivations Projection Primary memory Measurements Stream-structure Notes Bibliography PART III: The structure of temporal experience Chapter 9: The snapshot conception of temporal experiences Perduring experiences Causation and perceptual contents Phenomenological explanations in time The explanatory argument: extensionalism The explanatory argument continued: retentionalism Notes References Chapter 10: Atomism, Extensionalism and temporal presence Introduction Negative Temporal Transparency Temporal Presence Temporal Transparency and Temporal Presence The Continuity of Consciousness Atomism: Specious Present Theory and Memory Theory Extensionalism Imagination and memory Conclusion Notes References Chapter 11: Rethinking the specious present Introduction The current orthodoxy Arguments for the specious present The dynamic snapshot theory Discontinuous changes Rejecting Cartesian qualia Notes References Chapter 12: Making sense of subjective time Introduction: subjective time Rates of flow The possibility of strong variation on the simple flow view Problems individuating experiential duration properties Concluding remarks Notes References PART IV: Temporal experience and the philosophy of mind Chapter 13: Temporal experience and the philosophy of perception Models of temporal experience: picturing the differences The cinematic model, part 1: the contrast with retentionalism The cinematic model, part 2: the contrast with extensionalism An alternative attempt at demarcation Concluding remarks Notes References Chapter 14: Time in the dream The temporal properties of experience in general The temporal properties of experience in dreaming Conclusion Notes References Chapter 15: Time perception and agency: a Dual Model The intricacies of time perception Evidence on the intricacies of time perception Two models of time perception Extensionalism Overcoming incompatible and partial models: a third option Conclusion Notes References Chapter 16: Temporal perception, magnitudes and phenomenal externalism Durations treated realistically What is perception of temporal magnitudes? Temporal perception and phenomenal externalism Notes References PART V: Temporal experience and metaphysics Chapter 17: What is time? Introduction Eliminativism about time Mainstream analyses of time A phenomenological analysis Conclusion Notes References Chapter 18: Temporal experience and the A versus B debate Introduction The argument from experience A sense of presentness? A sense of passage? Re-thinking passage Conclusion Notes References Further reading Chapter 19: Presentism and temporal experience Introduction Presentism and the time-lag argument The paradox of temporal awareness Anti-realism about temporal perception and presentism Presentism and retentionalism Presentism and extensionalism Conclusion Notes References Further reading Chapter 20: The subjectively enduring self A first-personal perspective on oneself Temporal prospection The window of the self Temporal empathy The enduring self Future-blocked Notes References PART VI: Empirical perspectives Chapter 21: Perceiving visual time Introduction Temporal mechanisms Perceptual fluctuation Temporal synchrony Duration perception A content-dependent clock Summary and conclusions References Chapter 22: How we “use” time Background: perceiving time? A time perception task: an example Perceiving events: using time References Chapter 23: Attentional resources and the shaping of temporal experience Attention, temporal awareness, and the experience of time Attentional resources in timing Relation between timing and executive functions Unanswered questions and future directions References PART VII: Temporal experience and aesthetics Chapter 24: Motion and the Futurists: capturing the dynamic sensation The goal of Futurist painting Motion and the instant The experience of motion Futurist techniques Interpreting “reproducing the dynamic sensation” Depiction and non-realism Notes References Chapter 25: On time in cinema Cinema as an art of time passing Film as depiction of time Film experience as a temporal experience The spectator as a time explorer Conclusions Notes References Further reading Chapter 26: Dancing in time How dancers’ training to dance in time affects their temporal consciousness Dancing within (and beyond) the specious present A broadly retentional model of subjective consciousness Conclusion Note References Chapter 27: Music and time The definition of music Rhythm Musical works, performances and recordings Musical understanding The value of music References Index "Experience is inescapably temporal. But how do we experience time? Temporal experience is a fundamental subject in philosophy - according to Husserl, the most important and difficult of all. Its puzzles and paradoxes were of critical interest from the Early Moderns through to the Post-Kantians. After a period of relative neglect, temporal experience is again at the forefront of debates across a wealth of areas, from philosophy of mind and psychology, to metaphysics and aesthetics. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Temporal Experience is an outstanding reference source to the key debates in this exciting subject area and represents the first collection of its kind. Comprising nearly 30 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is organized into seven clear parts:Ancient and early modern perspectivesNineteenth and early twentieth-century perspectivesThe structure of temporal experienceTemporal experience and the philosophy of mindTemporal experience and metaphysicsEmpirical perspectives AestheticsWithin each part, key topics concerning temporal experience are examined, including canonical figures such as Locke, Kant and Husserl; extensionalism, retentionalism and the specious present; interrelations between temporal experience and time, agency, dreaming, and the self; empirical theories of perceiving and attending to time; and temporal awareness in the arts including dance, music and film. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Temporal Experience is essential reading for students and researchers of philosophy of mind and psychology. It is also extremely useful for those in related fields such as metaphysics, phenomenology and aesthetics, as well as for psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists."--Provided by publisher Experience is inescapably temporal. But how do we experience time? Temporal experience is a fundamental subject in philosophy - according to Husserl, the most important and difficult of all. Its puzzles and paradoxes were of critical interest from the Early Moderns through to the Post-Kantians. After a period of relative neglect temporal experience is again at the forefront of debates across a wealth of areas, from philosophy of mind and psychology, to metaphysics and aesthetics. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Temporal Experience is an outstanding reference source to the key debates in this exciting subject area and represents the first collection of its kind. Comprising nearly thirty chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is organised into seven clear parts: Ancient and Early Modern Perspective; Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Perspectives; The Structure of Temporal Experience; Temporal Experience and the Philosophy of Mind; Temporal Experience and Metaphysics; Empirical Perspectives; Aesthetics. Within each part key topics concerning temporal experience are examined, including canonical figures such as Locke, Kant and Husserl; extensionalism, retentionalism and the specious present; interrelations between temporal experience and time, agency, dreaming, and the self; empirical theories of perceiving and attending to time; and temporal awareness in the arts including dance, music and film