Embodied, Enacted and Represented Time

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Timing ability is important for social interaction, decision-making and task management. However, making a good sense of time is not always easy. Some reliable timing mechanisms of organisms have been widely assumed and empirically supported, such as internal clock theory or circadian clock. By contrast, a number of psychological and neuroscientific studies have emphasized that human temporal perception can be modulated by perceptual contexts, physiological processes and psychological or emotional states. Since full understanding of our timing ability requires taking all these factors into account, the interdisciplinary dialogue among philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists will provide a key insight into us as acting agents. Hence, the aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers from different disciplines and to foster an empirically informed embodied approach to the philosophy of time.

• "How we experience the passage of time: Bodily feelings, the self, and altered states of consciousness" - Marc Wittmann (psychologist, Germany)
• "Altered experience by Human Augmentation" - Peter König (neuroscientist, Germany)
• "Time: A basis for life experiences" - Eve Atchariya Isham (psychologist, USA)
• "Temporal experience: change and passage" - Christoph Hoerl (philosopher, UK)
• "On Perceptual content of apparent and real motion" - Haeran Jeong (philosopher, Germany)
• "National power-geometry and mental strategies for dealing with the time difference in everyday life in the Russian Far East" - Maria Momzikova & Asya Karaseva (cultural anthropologists, Estonia)
• "The ecumenical approach to reductionism and emergence in time" - Teoman Kenn Küçük (philosopher, Italy)
• "The continuity of experience" - Giuliano Torrengo (philosopher, Italy and Spain)
• "What individual differences and neuropsychological models can tell us about prospective and retrospective timing" - Alice Teghil (psychologist, Italy)
• "Psychological moments versus time consciousness theories" - Valtteri Arstila (philosopher, Finland)

The workshop is supported by the German Society for Philosophy of Science (Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsphilosophie) and the German Society for Analytical Philosophy (Gesellschaft für analytische Philosophie).