The Images of Time
An Essay on Temporal Representation
(Sprache: Englisch)
The Images of Time is a philosophical investigation of the nature of time and the mind's ways of representing it. Robin Le Poidevin examines the ways in which we perceive time and change, the means by which memory links us with the past, the attempt to...
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The Images of Time is a philosophical investigation of the nature of time and the mind's ways of representing it. Robin Le Poidevin examines the ways in which we perceive time and change, the means by which memory links us with the past, the attempt to represent change and movement in art, and the nature of fictional time.
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The Images of Time presents a philosophical investigation of the nature of time and the mind's ways of representing it. Robin Le Poidevin examines how we perceive time and change, the means by which memory links us with the past, the attempt to represent change and movement in art, and the nature of fictional time. These apparently disparate questions all concern the ways in which we represent aspects of time, in thought, experience, art and fiction. They also raise fundamental problems for our philosophical understanding, both of mental representation, and of the nature of time itself. 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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Images of Time “
- Part I: Aspects of Time and Representation
- 1: The Project
- 2: Causal Theories of Representation
- 3: Egocentric and Objective Representation
- Part II: Memory and Perception
- 4: Retracing the Past: Memory and Passage
- 5: Projecting the Present: The Shock of the Now
- 6: The Wider View: Precedence and Duration
- Part III: Art and Fiction
- 7: Image and Instant: The Pictorial Representation of Time
- 8: The Fictional Future
- 9: The Unity of Time and Narrative
- Conclusion
Autoren-Porträt von Robin Le Poidevin
Robin Le Poidevin is Professor of Metaphysics at the University of LeedsBibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Robin Le Poidevin
- 2009, 210 Seiten, Maße: 21,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199575517
- ISBN-13: 9780199575510
- Erscheinungsdatum: 08.01.2010
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Englisch
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...highly original and distinctive...reflection on the large and varied range of the mind's engagements with time can provide a very rich, and as yet rather underexplored, source of insights into the very nature of time. Christoph Hoerl , Mind
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