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OverviewMinding Time: A Philosophical and Theoretical Approach to the Psychology of Time offers an innovative philosophical account of the most fundamental kinds of time representation. Drawing on biological clocks, it explains how representations of duration and simultaneity relate to the consciously experienced present moment. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Carlos MontemayorPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 5 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9789004228917ISBN 10: 9004228918 Pages: 154 Publication Date: 28 September 2012 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Available To Order ![]() We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Periodic and Interval Clocks: The Uniformity of Time and the Units of Time Chapter 3: Sensory-Motor Representations of Time, the Outputs of the Clocks and the Two Constraints on Motor Time Coordination Chapter 4: A Two-Phase Model of the Present (Coordination and Experience) Conclusion Bibliography IndexReviewsIn the welter of today's information tsunami, it is statistically likely that this gem of a contribution will go unnoticed. Any such oversight would be a sad mistake. [...] It should be compulsory reading for all time-smiths but would not be out of place in an essential reading list for all those entering any form of advanced education, most especially those trying to understand the behavior of living systems in all their manifold complexities. Laudatory encomia for texts are all very well but let me simply say this--I am very glad that I read it, and I wish I had written it. - Peter A. Hancock in KronoScope 14 (2014) pp. 109-112. Author InformationCarlos Montemayor, PhD. (2007) Rutgers University, is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. His interdisciplinary research on the representation of time includes Time: Biological, Intentional and Cultural in Time: Limits and Constraints (Brill, 2010). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |