Experiencing time / Simon Prosser.

Our engagement with time is a ubiquitous feature of our lives. We are aware of time on many scales, from the briefest flicker of change to the way our lives unfold over many years. But to what extent does this encounter reveal the true nature of temporal reality? To the extent that temporal reality...

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Main Author: Prosser, Simon (Author)
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
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Physical Description:xii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Introduction : the metaphysics of time -- Experience and the passage of time -- Attitudes to the past, present,, nd future -- Experiencing rates and durations -- Is experience temporarily extended? -- Why does change seem dynamic? -- Moving through time, and the open future. 
505 0 |a 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. 
505 0 |a Tables. Truth-values and times ; Truth-values of second-order A-properties. 
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