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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.
List of contents
Part I: The Passage of Time.- Chapter 1. One Things After Another: Why the Passage of Time is Not an Illusion. Natalja Deng.- Chapter 2: Does it really seem to us as though time passes?. Kristie Miller.- Chapter 3. The Dynamic Block Universe and the Illusion of Passage. Maria Balcells.- Chapter 4. The Perception of Duration and the Judgement of the Passage of Time. Luke A. Jones.- Part II: Duration.- Chapter 5. The Temporal Oddball Effect and Related Phenomena: Cognitive Mechanisms and Experimental Approaches. Rolf Ulrich and Karin M. Bausenhart.- Chapter 6. Why the Intrinsic Value of Hedonic Sensations is Not Quantifiable. Ingmar Perrson.- Chapter 7. The Temporal Dynamic of Emotion Effects on Judgment of Durations. Sylvie Droit-Volet.- Chapter 8. Hidden Durations: Time-Lag in the World and Mind. Kristoffer Sundberg.- Chapter 9. Modulations in the Experience of Duration. Marc Wittman, Tijana Jokic and Eric Pfeifer.- Chapter 10. Against Illusions of Duration. Sean Enda Power.- PartIII: Simultaneity and Temporal Order.- Chapter 11. Causality Guides Times Perception. Andrea Desantis and Marc Buehner.- Chapter 12. Getting Stuck in the Ordered Sequence: Disrupted Temporal Processing in Patients With Schizophrenia and What it Tells us About the Sense of Time Continuity. Anne Giersch.- Chapter 13. When the Perception of a Synchronous World is - Mostly - Just an Illusion. Nadia Paraskevoudi and Argiro Vatakis.- Part IV: Cognition and Representation of Temporal Phenomena.- Chapter 14. Time Opined: A Being in the Moment. Mark A. Eliott.- Chapter 15. Temporal Binding and the Perception/Cognition Boundary. Christoph Hoerl.- Chapter 16. Spatiotemporal Illusions Involving Perceived Motion. Timothy L. Hubbard.- Chapter 17. Perceptual Illusions Caused by Discrete Sampling. Rodika Sokoliuk and Rufin VanRullen.- Chapter 18. Time Markers and Temporal Illusions. Valterri Arstila.
About the author
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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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.
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“The book The Illusions of Time is very well-structured and this structure helps understanding enormously. … Even if you are not a psychologist, neuroscientist or philosopher, all the contributions herein are understandable; the illustrations are particularly illuminating. … It is certainly not intended to be a conclusion, but rather an inventory of what certain sciences know at present. That is exactly what the book is good for, to question what we take for granted when talking about ‘time.’” (Kerstin Cuhls, Kronoscope, Issue 21, 2021)
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"The book The Illusions of Time is very well-structured and this structure helps understanding enormously. ... Even if you are not a psychologist, neuroscientist or philosopher, all the contributions herein are understandable; the illustrations are particularly illuminating. ... It is certainly not intended to be a conclusion, but rather an inventory of what certain sciences know at present. That is exactly what the book is good for, to question what we take for granted when talking about 'time.'" (Kerstin Cuhls, Kronoscope, Issue 21, 2021)
