Images of Time: An Essay on Temporal Representation.

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The Images of Time: An Essay on Temporal RepresentationThe Images of Time presents a philosophical investigation of the nature of time and the mind's ways of representing it. Robin Le Poidev. Publication.

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Frigg, Roman (2008) Book review: the images of time: an essay on temporal representation. British Journal of Aesthetics, 48 (4). pp. 467-469. ISSN 0007-0904 Full text not available from this repository.

Review of The images of time: an essay on temporal representation, by Le Poidevin, R. By Christoph Hoerl Topics: B1.

Can a painting or photograph represent movement and the passage of time? A traditional distinction, due to G. E. Lessing, between the arts of time and the arts of space suggests not: a static image (one that does not itself change) can only represent a single instant of time. This idea was attacked by Ernst Gombrich in a very influential article which is the subject of this chapter. Notions of.

Now published in a revised second edition, The Matter of Images searches through the resonances of the term 'representation', analysing images in terms of why they matter, what they are made of, and the material realities they refer to. Richard Dyer's analyses consider representations of 'out' groups and traditionally dominant groups alike, and encompass the eclectic texts of contemporary.

Robin Le Poidevin (born 1962) is a Professor of Metaphysics at the University of Leeds whose special interests include agnosticism, philosophy of religion and metaphysics. He joined the Department of Philosophy at Leeds in 1989 having completed postgraduate studies at both Oxford and Cambridge, obtaining his MA from the former and his PhD from the latter. He is also the current vice president.

Similarity is central in human cognition, playing a role in a wide range of cognitive processes. In three studies, we demonstrate that subjective similarity may change as a function of temporal distance, with some events seeming more similar when considered in the near future, while others increase in similarity as temporal distance increases.

Agnosticism: A Very Short Introduction Robin Le Poidevin What is agnosticism? Is it just the 'don't know' position on God, or is there more to it.

The God of Western religion is said to be eternal. But what does that mean? Is God somehow beyond time, living a life that does not involve one thing after another? Or is God's relationship to time much more like ours, so that God's eternality just consists in there being no time at which God doesn't exist? Even for non-believers, these issues.