Cosmological and Psychological Time

This book examines the many faces of philosophy of time, including the metaphysical aspects, natural science issues, and the consciousness of time. It brings together the different methodologies of investigating the philosophy of time. It does so to counter the growing fragmentation of the field with regard to discussions, and the existing cleavage between analytic and continental traditions in philosophy. The book's multidirectional approach to the notion of time contributes to a better understanding of time's metaphysical, physical and phenomenological aspects. It helps clarify the presuppositions underpinning the analytic and continental traditions in the philosophy of time and offers ways in which the differences between them can be bridged.

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Introduction.- Relativity Theory.- 1. Dennis Dieks - Physical Time and Experienced Time.- 2. Yuval Dolev - Relativity, Global Tense and Phenomenology.- 3. Yehiel Cohen Why Presentism Cannot be Refuted by Special Relativity.- 4. Jimena Canales - Einstein's Bergson Problem: Communication, Consensus and Good Science.- Transience and Experience.- 5. Barry Dainton - Some Cosmological Implications of Temporal Experience.- 6. Jenann Ismael - From Physical Time to Human Time.- 7. Tamar Levanon - Relation, Action and the Continuity of Transition.- 8. Ulrich Meyer - Consciousness and the Present.- 9. Meir Hemmo and Orly Shenker - The Arrow of Time.- Temporality and Phenomenology.- 10. Michael Roubach - Heidegger's Primordial Temporality and Other Notions of Time.- 11. Philip Turetzky - The Passive Syntheses of Time.- 12. Dror Yinon - Change's Order: On Deleuze's Notion of Time.