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The Personal Experience of Time || by Alden E. Wessman, Bernard S. Gorman (auth.), Bernard S. Gorman, Alden E. Wessman (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Personal Experience of Time || about?
The fundamental nature of human time experience has concerned artists, poets, philosophers, and scientists throughout the ages. Any consideration of human action requires awareness of its temporal aspects. However, simply to view time in the same units and dimensions as the physicist employs in describing events robs personal time of its "lived" quality. The use of physical time concepts in the description of human events is often artificial and misleading. It fails to account for the facts that human time estimates rarely match clock and calendar time; that societies and individuals demonstrate vast differences in their constructions and uses of time; and that temporal perceptions and attitudes change within an individual both during a single day and throughout his life span. The present volume does not view time as something that is sensed in the same way that one would sense or perceive spatial or sensory stimuli. Rather, it views time as a complex set of personally experienced cognitive constructs used by individuals and cultures to account for the order, the duration, and the organization of events. The authors in this book take a strong departure from earlier psychophysical s
Who reads The Personal Experience of Time ||?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Alden E. Wessman, Bernard S. Gorman (auth.), Bernard S. Gorman, Alden E. Wessman (eds.)
- Publisher
- Springer US : Imprint : Springer
- Published
- 1977
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781461341635
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Psychology, Social_sciences