Time and the Visual Imagination: from physics to philosophy
Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Mind, vol. 2, edited by Uriah Kriegel, Oxford University Press.
The visual imagination plays an especially prominent role in spacetime physics. Spacetime diagrams and other visualizations play a role conveying the content of the theory and guide the imagination in computation. I believe it is also behind some of the most trenchant misunderstandings about what physics tells us about the nature of time. In this paper I discuss the images of time coming out of physics and the philosophical confusions to which they give rise.
Passage, Flow, and the Logic of Temporal Perspectives
In The Nature of Time, The Time of Nature, edited by Christophe Bouton and Phillippe Hunemann, University of Chicago Press.
I try to inject a little formal precision into the discussion of passage. Instead of talking about the quality of temporal experience, I’m going to talk about the content. And I argue that we can resolve a good many of the issues with an examination of the logic of temporal perspectives.
From Physical Time to Human Time
Edited by Yuval Abrams, in Cosmological and Psychological Time, Springer.
Temporal Experience
In Oxford Handbook on Time, edited by Craig Callender, Oxford University Press.
The experience of time has been a mainstay of discussion in the phenomenological tradition. This is my first foray into the discussion of the quality and content of temporal experience.
Remembrances, Mementos, and Time Capsules
In Time, Reality, and Experience, edited by Craig Callender. Cambridge University Press.
