Philosophy of Time and Perceptual Experience (Routledge Studies in Metaphysics) By Sean Enda Power

0815370385

9780815370383

English

250

Hardcover

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 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 na ve 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 Philosophy of Time and Perceptual Experience Routledge Studies in Metaphysics .