Experiencing time

by Prosser, Simon

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Title Statements

Full title :Experiencing time / Simon Prosser.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford Univ. Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

The Physical Object

Description:221 pages

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0198748949, 9780198748946
oclc:ocn995247861
Dewey Decimal:115

Introduction : the metaphysics of time ; Experience and the passage of time ; Attitudes to the past, present and future ; Experiencing rates and durations ; Is experience temporarily extended? ; Why does change seem dynamic? ; Moving through time, and the open future.

Figures. McTaggart's A-series and B-series ; Ontological variants of the A-theory, with B-theory also shown for comparison ; An event at t₂ ; Observation of simultaneity according to STR ; A passage-of-time detector ; Consciousness and motion through time ; A B-theoretic equivalent of Wel's model ; A multi-detector ; Different rates of passage ; A spot-the difference puzzle ; Constraints on the temporal structure of experience ; Dainton's overlap model ; The stimulus for the Cutaneous Rabbit illusion ; The memory model ; The retention model ; The extensional model ; The Müller-Lyer Illusion ; Decisions in chains of causation ; The black-box self.

Tables. Truth-values and times ; Truth-values of second-order A-properties.