Explaining Temporal Phenomenology: Hume’s Extensionalism and Kant’s Apriorism

Kant-Studien ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 110 (3) ◽  
pp. 463-476
Author(s):  
Adrian Bardon
Keyword(s):  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Content Of Experience

Abstract The empiricist needs to explain the origin, in perception, of the idea of time. Kant believed the only answer was a kind of idealism about time. This essay examines Hume’s extensionalism as a possible answer to Kant. Extensionalism allegedly accounts for the experience of time via the manner of presentation of experiences, rather than the content of experience.

Intentionalism, Cognition, and Representation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Christopher Maloney
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Mental Representation ◽  
Phenomenal Character ◽  
Conscious Perception ◽  
Perceptual Representation ◽  
Perceptual State ◽  
Content Of Experience

This chapter continues consideration of reductive intentionalism without embracing the doctrine, framing it in the context of cognitive science. Cognition, including perception, is representation. An agent’s cognitive, perhaps perceptual, state is a relation binding the agent to a proposition by means of her mental representation. Intentionalism would explicate the phenomenal character of a perceiver's experience in terms of the content of her prevailing perceptual representation. While minimal intentionalism maintains that the phenomenal character of the perceiver's experience merely supervenes on her representation's content, maximal intentionalism would reduce character to content. For maximal intentionalism maintains that phenomenal character is simply what introspection finds. Yet, according to maximal intentionalism, introspection, when tuned to conscious perception, detects only the content of experience. Hence, the maximalist identifies phenomenal character with the content carried by perceptual representation.

Time and Temporality

2020 ◽  
pp. 458-480
Author(s):  
Benedict Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Temporal Experience ◽  
Intimate Connection ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Temporal Course ◽  
Nature Of Time ◽  
Poetic Metaphor ◽  
Century Thought

For the nineteenth century, music was commonly characterized as the “art of time,” and provided a particularly fertile medium for articulating concerns about the nature of time and the temporal experience of human life. This chapter examines some of the debates around music and time from the period, arranged thematically around a series of conceptual issues. These include the reasons proposed for the links between music and time, and the intimate connection between our subjective experience of time and music; the use of music as a poetic metaphor for the temporal course of history; its use by philosophers as an instrument for the explication of temporal conundrums; its alleged potential for overcoming time; its various forms of temporal signification across diverse genres; and the legacy of nineteenth-century thought on these topics today.

scholarly journals Elegy

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-9
Author(s):  
David L. Ulin
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Experience Of Time

Traversing the kaleidoscope of memory of early adulthood in the San Francisco bay area, David Ulin describes the places as he remembers them with picturesque account: Andrew Molera State Park, Fort Mason, Marin Headlands, Old Waldorf, and Sutro Tower, with the particulars, and what happened to his experience of time in those places that summer of 1980. Experienced as a series of fleeting memories, joining together with others who lived there for a time. They left, and so did the author, experiencing the power of temporality or “abandon” both in and from this place.

scholarly journals A pandemic of jokes? The Israeli COVID-19 meme and the construction of a collective response to risk

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsafi Sebba-Elran
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Group Cohesion ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Public Response ◽  
Hybrid Nature ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Collective Response ◽  
News Announcements ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Current Article

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic that broke out in Israel in February 2020 prompted widespread public response, which included a deluge of humorous memes. The current article discusses the main meme cycles of the pandemic with the aim of uncovering the functions of the humorous meme, and particularly its singular language, which incorporates the universal and the particular, the global and the local, the hegemonic and the subversive. The memes are examined in their immediate context, as responses to news announcements, restrictions, and rumors relating to the pandemic, and from a comparative perspective, with emphasis on the various functions of disaster jokes and the use of folklore in response to previous epidemics, crises, or risks. Alongside the hybrid nature of the genre, these meme cycles demonstrate that COVID-19 is not just a threatening virus but a new reality that undermines our experience of time and space, evoking old beliefs and new, and threatening to change everyday practices. These narratives not only reflect the incongruities evoked by the virus, but also give vent to anxieties and aggressions brought on by the pandemic and convey a communal need to protect and foster group cohesion and a local sense of belonging.

The causal involvement of the right supramarginal gyrus in the subjective experience of time: A hf-tRNS study

2021 ◽  
Vol 404 ◽  
pp. 113157
Author(s):  
Giulia Prete ◽  
Chiara Lucafò ◽  
Gianluca Malatesta ◽  
Luca Tommasi
Keyword(s):  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Supramarginal Gyrus ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
The Right

Gender as Lived Time: Reading The Second Sex for a Feminist Phenomenology of Temporality

Hypatia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan M. Burke
Keyword(s):  
Human Existence ◽  
Underlying Structure ◽  
Sexual Objectification ◽  
Main Claim ◽  
Second Sex ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Phenomenological Account ◽  
Time Reading ◽  
Feminist Phenomenology ◽  
Lived Time

This article suggests that Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex offers an important contribution to a feminist phenomenology of temporality. In contrast to readings of The Second Sex that focus on the notion of “becoming” as the main claim about the relation between “woman” and time, this article suggests that Beauvoir's discussion of temporality in volume II of The Second Sex shows that Beauvoir understands the temporality of waiting, or a passive present, to be an underlying structure of women's existence and subordination. Accordingly, I argue that Beauvoir does not see “woman” as a mere becoming, as that which unfolds in time, but instead understands becoming a woman to be realized as lived time. As such, Beauvoir's account shows that gender and temporality are deeply entangled, and thus she challenges the classic phenomenological account of temporality as a general, given structure of human existence. More specifically, I argue that her account shows how a particular experience of time is an underlying structure of sexual objectification, a claim that expands on the feminist phenomenological claim that a particular relation to space becomes a way in which women take up and negotiate their own subordination and objectification.

Mapping the Terrain of Time—Space Compression: Power Networks in Everyday Life

1997 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 611-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Bridge
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Power Networks ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Space Compression ◽  
Actor Networks ◽  
Power Geometry ◽  
Comprehensive Mapping

In this paper I seek a more comprehensive mapping of the experience of time—space in late modernity. I develop Massey's critique of the work of Harvey and Jameson in their reading of time space compression as a socially uniform experience of disorientation. Building on Massey's notion of ‘power geometry’ I integrate discussions of time—space with an application of different understandings of power (from traditional political philosophy, Marxism, and poststructuralism) and their manifestations—in latent-power conditions, socioeconomic networks, actor networks, ‘local’ interpersonal relations, and the network spaces of subjectivity. Rather than being posited as irreconcilable conceptions, these versions of power and their articulations can be seen as initial coordinates in the mapping of the complexities of the experiences of time and space in late modernity.

Into The Void

Janus Head ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-189
Author(s):  
Clay Lewis ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Eternal Return ◽  
Will To Power ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Complete Failure ◽  
Impossible Task ◽  
Poetic Vision

This paper looks at authoritarianism as an expression of nihilism. In spite of his rigorous critique of Platonism, I suggest that Nietzsche shares with Plato an authoritarian vision that is rooted in the cyclical experience of time. The temporality of the eternal return unveils a vista of cosmic nihilism that cannot possibly be endured. In the absence of metaphysical foundations, the vital will to power is assigned an impossible task – to create meaning from nothing. I suggest that when confronted with the horror of the ungrounded void, the self-overcoming of nihilism reverts to self-annihilation. The declaration that God is dead becomes the belief that death is God. I trace Nietzsche’s cosmic nihilism back to Plato’s myths and the poetic vision of Sophocles and Aeschylus. I argue that Nietzsche’s overcoming of nihilism is itself nihilistic. However, this does not mean that Nietzsche’s project is as a complete failure. On the contrary, I suggest that Nietzsche’s deepest insight is that the good life does not consist of the pursuit of truth, but the alleviation of suffering.

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