Philosophy of Time and Perceptual Experience (Routledge Studies in Metaphysics) - Softcover

Power, Sean Enda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367667088 ISBN 13: 9780367667085

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

This book explores the important yet neglected relationship between the philosophy of time and the temporal structure of perceptual experience. It examines how time structures perceptual experience and, through that structuring, the ways in which time makes perceptual experience trustworthy or erroneous.

Sean Power argues that our understanding of time can determine our understanding of perceptual experience in relation to perceptual structure and perceptual error. He examines the general conditions under which an experience may be sorted into different kinds of error such as illusions, hallucinations, and anosognosia. Power also argues that some theories of time are better than others at giving an account of the structure and errors of perceptual experience. He makes the case that tenseless theory and eternalism more closely correspond to experience than tense theory and presentism. Finally, the book includes a discussion of the perceptual experience of space and how tenseless theory and eternalism can better support the problematic theory of naïve realism.

Philosophy of Time and Perceptual Experience originally illustrates how the metaphysics of time can be usefully applied to thinking about experience in general. It will appeal to those interested in the philosophy of time and debates about the trustworthiness of experience.

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About the Author

Sean Enda Power is Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of Philosophy of Time: A Contemporary Introduction (forthcoming, Routledge).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367667088
• ISBN 13: 9780367667085
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 260