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Le Poidevin, R. (2000-2019). The experience and perception of time. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved October 27, 2021, from https://plato.stanford. ... ntries/time-experience/. Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (07/03/2006, 04:57) Last edited by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (03/10/2023, 10:00) |
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| Resource type: Web Encyclopedia Article Peer reviewed ID no. (ISBN etc.): 1095-5054 BibTeX citation key: LePoidevin2000 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Time Creators: Le Poidevin, Zalta Collection: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
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"We see colours, hear sounds and feel textures. Some aspects of the world, it seems, are perceived through a particular sense. Others, like shape, are perceived through more than one sense. But what sense or senses do we use when perceiving time? It is certainly not associated with one particular sense. In fact, it seems odd to say that we see, hear or touch time passing. And indeed, even if all our senses were prevented from functioning for a while, we could still notice the passing of time through the changing pattern of our thought. Perhaps, then, we have a special faculty, distinct from the five senses, for detecting time. Or perhaps, as seems more likely, we notice time through perception of other things. But how? Time perception raises a number of intriguing puzzles, including what it means to say we perceive time. In this article, we shall explore the various processes through which we are made aware of time, and which influence the way we think time really is. Inevitably, we shall be concerned with the psychology of time perception, but the purpose of the article is to draw out the philosophical issues, and in particular whether and how aspects of our experience can be accommodated within certain metaphysical theories concerning the nature of time and causation." |
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Should be a reasonably authoratative summary since it is published on the internet by Stanford University as part of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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