The Illusions of Time: Philosophical and Psychological Essays on Timing and Time Perception

383 Pages·2019·7.63 MB·English

by  Valtteri Arstila, Adrian Bardon, Sean Enda Power, Argiro Vatakis

The Illusions of Time
Philosophical and Psychological
Essays on Timing and Time Perception
Edited by Valtteri Arstila · Adrian Bardon
Sean Enda Power · Argiro Vatakis
The Illusions of Time
Valtteri Arstila • Adrian Bardon
Sean Enda Power • Argiro Vatakis
Editors
The Illusions of Time
Philosophical and Psychological Essays
on Timing and Time Perception
Editors
Valtteri Arstila Adrian Bardon
University of Turku Wake Forest University
Turku, Finland Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Sean Enda Power Argiro Vatakis
University College Cork Panteion University of Social and Political
Cork, Ireland Sciences
Athens, Greece
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Contents
Part I The Passage of Time 1
1 One Thing After Another: Why the Passage of Time Is Not
an Illusion 3
Natalja Deng
2 Does It Really Seem to Us as Though Time Passes? 17
Kristie Miller
3 The Dynamic Block Universe and the Illusion of Passage 35
Maria Balcells
4 The Perception of Duration and the Judgment of the
Passage of Time 53
Luke A. Jones
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Part II D uration 69
5 The Temporal Oddball Effect and Related Phenomena:
Cognitive Mechanisms and Experimental Approaches 71
Rolf Ulrich and Karin M. Bausenhart
6 Why the Intrinsic Value of Hedonic Sensations Is Not
Quantifiable 91
Ingmar Persson
7 The Temporal Dynamic of Emotion Effects on Judgment
of Durations 103
Sylvie Droit-Volet
8 Hidden Duration: Time-Lag in the World and Mind 127
Kristoffer Sundberg
9 Modulations in the Experience of Duration 145
Marc Wittmann, Tijana Jokic, and Eric Pfeifer
10 Against Illusions of Duration 163
Sean Enda Power
Part III Simultaneity and Temporal Order 185
11 Causality Guides Time Perception 187
Andrea Desantis and Marc Buehner
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 205
Anne Giersch
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13 When the Perception of a Synchronous World Is—
Mostly—Just an Illusion 225
Nadia Paraskevoudi and Argiro Vatakis
Part IV Cognition and Representation of Temporal
Phenomena 259
14 Time Opined: A Being in the Moment 261
Mark A. Elliott
15 Temporal Binding and the Perception/Cognition
Boundary 275
Christoph Hoerl
16 Spatiotemporal Illusions Involving Perceived Motion 289
Timothy L. Hubbard
17 Perceptual Illusions Caused by Discrete Sampling 315
Rodika Sokoliuk and Rufin VanRullen
18 Time Markers and Temporal Illusions 339
Valtteri Arstila
Index 359
List of Contributors
Valtteri  Arstila Department of Philosophy & Turku Institute for
Advanced Studies, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
Maria  Balcells Department of Philosophy, Bucknell University,
Lewisburg, PA, USA
Adrian Bardon Department of Philosophy, Wake Forest University,
Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Karin M. Bausenhart University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Marc Buehner School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
Natalja Deng Underwood International College, Yonsei University,
Seoul, South Korea
Andrea Desantis Département Traitement de l’Information et Systèmes,
ONERA, Salon-de-Provence, France
Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, CNRS, Université Paris
Descartes, Paris, France
Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université,
Marseille, France
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Sylvie Droit-Volet CNRS, UMR 6024, Université Clermont Auvergne,
Clermont-Ferrand, France
Mark A. Elliott School of Psychology, National University of Ireland
Galway, Galway, Republic of Ireland
Anne Giersch INSERM U1114, Pôle de Psychiatrie, Centre Hospitalier
Régional, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Christoph Hoerl Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick,
Coventry, UK
Timothy L. Hubbard Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Tijana Jokic School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences,
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Luke A. Jones Division of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology,
School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Kristie Miller Department of Philosophy, School of Philosophical and
Historical Inquiry and The Centre for Time, University of Sydney,
Sydney, Australia
Nadia  Paraskevoudi Brainlab, Cognitive Neuroscience Research
Group, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, University
of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Ingmar Persson University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford, UK
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Eric Pfeifer Catholic University of Applied Sciences Freiburg, Freiburg,
Germany
Sean Enda Power Department of Philosophy, University College Cork,
Cork, Ireland
Rodika  Sokoliuk Centre for Human Brain Health, University of
Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Kristoffer Sundberg University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Rolf Ulrich University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Rufin VanRullen Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, Université
Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Argiro Vatakis Cognitive Systems Research Institute, Athens, Greece
Department of Psychology, Panteion University of Social and Political
Sciences, Athens, Greece
Marc Wittmann Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental
Health, Freiburg, Germany