Humans share with other animals an ability to measure the passage of physical time and
subjectively experience a sense of time passing. Subjective time has hallmark qualities, akin …

According to the'mental time travel hypothesis' animals, unlike humans, cannot mentally
travel backwards in time to recollect specific past events (episodic memory) or forwards to …

Episodic memory has been analyzed in a number of different ways in both philosophy and
psychology, and most controversy has centered on its self-referential, autonoetic character …

Although the idea of hindsight is frequently associated with the biases, distortions, and
outright lies of memory--as in the infamous" 20-20" scenario or the conviction that one" knew …

This article examines the effects of memory loss on a patient's ability to remember the past
and imagine the future. We present the case of DB, who, as a result of hypoxic brain …

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The Images of Time presents a philosophical investigation of the nature of time and the
mind's ways of representing it. Robin Le Poidevin examines how we perceive time and …

After an introductory section, this article will focus on four questions: How should the Kyoto
School be defined? What is meant by its central philosophical concept of “absolute …

All organisms capable of long-term memory are necessarily oriented toward the future. We
propose that one of the most important adaptive functions of long-term episodic memory is to …

We see colours, hear sounds and feel textures. Some aspects of the world, it seems, are
perceived through a particular sense. Others, like shape, are perceived through more than …