Pdf the doctrine of the specious present that we perceive or, at least, seem to perceive a period of time is often taken to be an obvious claim. The worry that lies at the heart of this debate can be approached in a very general and somewhat simplistic way as follows. First, the texture of now, which james calls specious. Beyond this cursory designation, however, reduction clearly points to the mode of now as having a unique or privileged status pzb, p. Time perception studies the sense of time, which differs from other senses since time cannot be directly perceived but must be reconstructed by the brain. Specious definition is having a false look of truth or genuineness. The simple answer is that were too resource constrained to have a dedicated response person to all support issues. Philosophy of time, temporal experience, specious present, co consciousness. The specious present is the time duration wherein ones perceptions are considered to be in the present. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. And why, ultimately, do we need it to figure in our phenomenological account of temporal.
The illusory flow and passage of time within consciousness. Experiences objects are given as being of the present, but. Pdf converter is a online webbased document to pdf converter software. Convert and create pdf from various types of files like word doc, excel xls, powerpoint ppt. Pdf temporal experiences without the specious present. Article information, pdf download for memory and its offspring. Pdf the metaphysics of the specious present researchgate. The specious present is specious because it is actually past.
Download pdf durham research online durham university. The specious present doctrine, as it is often referred to, is the view that we experience the present moment as nonpunctate, as having some short but nonzero duration. Normally we designate these modes by the terms present, now, past, and future. Temporal experiences without the specious present article pdf available in australasian journal of philosophy june 2017 with 170 reads how we measure reads. The development of the specious present and james views. The specious present is the time duration wherein ones perceptions are considered to be in.
It furthers the universitys objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. The specious present is not instantaneous however short, it encompasses a brief period of time. The term specious present was introduced to philosophy and psychology by william james, in his influential principles of psychology 1890. Oxford university press is a department of the university of oxford.
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