Arstila Valtteri, Lloyd Dan (eds.) Subjective Time: The Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience of Temporality

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2014. —688 p. — ISBN10: 0262019949; ISBN13: 978-0262019941Interdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time.Our awareness of time and temporal properties is a constant feature of conscious life. Subjective temporality structures and guides every aspect of behavior and cognition, distinguishing memory, perception, and anticipation. This milestone volume brings together research on temporality from leading scholars in philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, defining a new field of interdisciplinary research. The book's thirty chapters include selections from classic texts by William James and Edmund Husserl and new essays setting them in historical context; contemporary philosophical accounts of lived time; and current empirical studies of psychological time. These last chapters, the larger part of the book, cover such topics as the basic psychophysics of psychological time, its neural foundations, its interaction with the body, and its distortion in illness and altered states of consciousness.Contributors: Melissa J. Allman, Holly Andersen, Valtteri Arstila, Yan Bao, Dean V. Buonomano, Niko A. Busch, Barry Dainton, Sylvie Droit-Volet, Christine M. Falter, Thomas Fraps, Shaun Gallagher, Alex O. Holcombe, Edmund Husserl, William James, Piotr Jaskowski, Jeremie Jozefowiez, Ryota Kanai, Allison N. Kurti, Dan Lloyd, Armando Machado, Matthew S. Matell, Warren H. Meck, James Mensch, Bruno Mölder, Catharine Montgomery, Konstantinos Moutoussis, Peter Naish, Valdas Noreika, Sukhvinder S. Obhi, Ruth Ogden, Alan o'Donoghue, Georgios Papadelis, Ian B. Phillips, Ernst Pöppel, John E. R. Staddon, Dale N. Swanton, Rufin VanRullen, Argiro Vatakis, Till M. Wagner, John Wearden, Marc Wittmann, Agnieszka Wykowska, Kielan Yarrow, Bin Yin, Dan ZahaviHistorical SourcesExcerpts from The Principles of Psychology
The Development of the "Specious Present" and James's Views on Temporal Experience
A Brief Account of Husserl's Conception of Our Consciousness of Time
The Structure of Lived TimeContemporary Philosophies of Lived TimePrimal Impression and Enactive Perception
The Phenomenal Continuum
The Temporal Structure of ExperienceChoppy Streams of ConsciousnessIs Visual Perception Like a Continuous Flow or a Series of Snapshots?
Are There Cracks in the Facade of Continuous Visual Experience?Fragments of TimePerceptual Asynchrony in Vision
Constructing Time: Dennett and Grush on Temporal RepresentationSubjective Times and Lived TimeTemporal Windows as a Bridge from Objective to Subjective Time
Time and Magic — Manipulating Subjective Temporality
Subjective Duration in the Laboratory and the World OutsideIntersections: Timeless Philosophy and Timely ExperimentCP 15 Subjective Time: From Past to FutureOff the ClockThe Neural Mechanisms of Timing on Short Timescales
Illusory Distortion of Subjective Time Perception
Cognitive versus Associative Decision Rules in TimingWhat and WhenWhat Determines Simultaneity and Order Perception?
The Research on Audiovisual Perception of Temporal Order and the Processing of Musical Temporal Patterns: Associations, Pitfalls, and Future Directions
On the Flexibility of Human Temporal ResolutionAction and PassionTemporal Perception in the Context of Action
What Emotions Tell Us about Time
Embodied Time: The Experience of Time, the Body, and the SelfAltered TimesVariability of Duration Perception: From Natural and Induced Alterations to Psychiatric Disorders
Time Processing in Developmental Disorders: A Comparative View
The Potential Link between Temporal Averaging and Drug-Taking Behavior
The Perception of Time in Hypnosis
Time in the Psychopathological MindReflectionsThe Disunity of Time