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9780199265893

The Images of Time An Essay on Temporal Representation

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  • ISBN13:

    9780199265893

  • ISBN10:

    0199265895

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-12-07
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

The Images of Time presents a philosophical investigation of the nature of time and the mind's ways of representing it. Robin Le Poidevin examines how we perceive time and change, the means by which memory links us with the past, the attempt to represent change and movement in art, and thenature of fictional time. These apparently disparate questions all concern the ways in which we represent aspects of time, in thought, experience, art and fiction. They also raise fundamental problems for our philosophical understanding, both of mental representation, and of the nature of timeitself. Le Poidevin brings together issues in philosophy, psychology, aesthetics, and literary theory in examining the mechanisms underlying our representation of time in various media, and brings these to bear on metaphysical debates over the real nature of time. These debates concern which aspects of timeare genuinely part of time's intrinsic nature, and which, in some sense, are mind-dependent. Arguably, the most important debate concerns time's passage: does time pass in reality, or is the division of events into past, present, and future simply a reflection of our temporal perspective - a result of the interaction between a 'static' world and minds capable of representing it? Le Poidevinargues that, contrary to what perception and memory lead us to suppose, time does not really pass, and this surprising conclusion can be reconciled with the characteristic features of temporal experience.

Author Biography

Robin Le Poidevin is Professor of Metaphysics at the University of Leeds.

Table of Contents

Aspects of Time and Representation
The Project
Causal Theories of Representation
Egocentric and Objective Representation
Memory and Perception
Retracing the Past: Memory and Passage
Projecting the Present: The Shock of the Now
The Wider View: Precedence and Duration
Art and Fiction
Image and Instant: The Pictorial Representation of Time
The Fictional Future
The Unity of Time and Narrative
Conclusion
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