Images of Time: An Essay on Temporal Representation

ISBN-13: 9780199575510 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 216 str.

Robin Le Poidevin

Opis

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 the nature 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 time itself.

Recenzje

Le Poidevin's Images is a rewarding and imaginative treatment of the nature of temporal representation, nourished with a broad range of examples: perception, memory, pictorial art, and narrative fiction.

O autorze

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