Time and Tense in Perceptual Experience

Author:	Christoph Hoerl
Title:	Time and Tense in Perceptual Experience
Publication Info:	Ann Arbor, MI: MPublishing, University of Michigan Library December 2009
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Source:	Time and Tense in Perceptual Experience Christoph Hoerl vol. 9, no. 12, December 2009
Abstract:	We can not just see, hear or feel how things are at a time, but we also have perceptual experiences as of things moving or changing. I argue that such temporal experiences have a content that is tenseless, i.e. best characterized in terms of notions such as 'before' and 'after' (rather than, say, 'past', 'present' and 'future'), and that such experiences are essentially of the nature of a process that takes up time, viz., the same time as the process that is being experienced. Both claims have been made before, though usually separately from each other, and I don't believe the connection between them has been sufficiently recognized.
Keywords:	perception phenomenology specious present temporal consciousness
URL:	http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3521354.0009.012
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