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

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxviii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 One Thing After Another: Why the Passage of Time Is Not an Illusion (Natalja Deng)....Pages 3-15 Does It Really Seem to Us as Though Time Passes? (Kristie Miller)....Pages 17-33 The Dynamic Block Universe and the Illusion of Passage (Maria Balcells)....Pages 35-51 The Perception of Duration and the Judgment of the Passage of Time (Luke A. Jones)....Pages 53-67 Front Matter ....Pages 69-69 The Temporal Oddball Effect and Related Phenomena: Cognitive Mechanisms and Experimental Approaches (Rolf Ulrich, Karin M. Bausenhart)....Pages 71-89 Why the Intrinsic Value of Hedonic Sensations Is Not Quantifiable (Ingmar Persson)....Pages 91-102 The Temporal Dynamic of Emotion Effects on Judgment of Durations (Sylvie Droit-Volet)....Pages 103-125 Hidden Duration: Time-Lag in the World and Mind (Kristoffer Sundberg)....Pages 127-144 Modulations in the Experience of Duration (Marc Wittmann, Tijana Jokic, Eric Pfeifer)....Pages 145-162 Against Illusions of Duration (Sean Enda Power)....Pages 163-184 Front Matter ....Pages 185-185 Causality Guides Time Perception (Andrea Desantis, Marc Buehner)....Pages 187-203 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)....Pages 205-223 When the Perception of a Synchronous World Is—Mostly—Just an Illusion (Nadia Paraskevoudi, Argiro Vatakis)....Pages 225-257 Front Matter ....Pages 259-259 Time Opined: A Being in the Moment (Mark A. Elliott)....Pages 261-274 Temporal Binding and the Perception/Cognition Boundary (Christoph Hoerl)....Pages 275-287 Spatiotemporal Illusions Involving Perceived Motion (Timothy L. Hubbard)....Pages 289-313 Perceptual Illusions Caused by Discrete Sampling (Rodika Sokoliuk, Rufin VanRullen)....Pages 315-338 Time Markers and Temporal Illusions (Valtteri Arstila)....Pages 339-357 Back Matter ....Pages 359-374