Greetings all,
This coming Monday, June 29 Nick Huggett (University of Illinois at
Chicago) will talk to us about "passing time". 1.00-2.30 in the
philosophy common room.
For more information see the current project's website at:
http://homepage.mac.com/centre.for.time/KristieMiller/Kristie/Home_Page.html
Short Abstract: Is the peculiar phenomenology of temporal perception
(especially in contrast to spatial perception) the direct perception
of some intrinsic feature of time, its ‘passing’ say? Supporters of
temporal becoming sometimes argue thus. In opposition, I argue that
the phenomenology is largely associated with the perception of motion.
Thus I describe motion detection according to contemporary cognitive
science using apparent motion illusions and neurophysiology, and argue
that such brain activity explains the striking phenomenology in
question. That is, the alleged experience of time passing is instead
(in large part) the experience of things moving. This paper shows that
science, not armchair introspection, is needed to understand what
experience shows us about time.
Dr. Kristie Miller
University of Sydney Research Fellow
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and
The Centre for Time
The University of Sydney
Sydney Australia
Room 411, A 18
[email protected]
[email protected]
Ph: 02 93569663
http://homepage.mac.com/centre.for.time/KristieMiller/Kristie/Home_Page.html
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