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The Images of Time. An Essay on Temporal Representation.
Robin Le Poidevin
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Description for The Images of Time. An Essay on Temporal Representation.
Paperback. The Images of Time is a philosophical investigation of the nature of time and the mind's ways of representing it. Robin Le Poidevin examines the ways in which 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. Num Pages: 210 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK; HPM; HPN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 284.
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. Le Poidevin ... Read more
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. Le Poidevin ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
Number of Pages
210
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199575510
SKU
V9780199575510
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About Robin Le Poidevin
Robin Le Poidevin is Professor of Metaphysics at the University of Leeds
Reviews for The Images of Time. An Essay on Temporal Representation.
...highly original and distinctive...reflection on the large and varied range of the mind's engagements with time can provide a very rich, and as yet rather underexplored, source of insights into the very nature of time.
Christoph Hoerl , Mind
Le Poidevin's Images is a rewarding and imaginative treatment of the nature of temporal representation, nourished with a broad ... Read more
Christoph Hoerl , Mind
Le Poidevin's Images is a rewarding and imaginative treatment of the nature of temporal representation, nourished with a broad ... Read more