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 change, the means by
which memory links us with the past, the attempt to represent
change and movement in art, and the nature of fictional time. These
apparently disparate questions all concern the ways in which we
represent aspects of time, in thought, experience, art and fiction.
They also raise fundamental problems for our philosophical
understanding, both of mental representation, and of the nature of
time itself.
Le Poidevin brings together issues in philosophy, psychology,
aesthetics, and literary theory in examining the mechanisms
underlying our representation of time in various media, and brings
these to bear on metaphysical debates over the real nature of time.
These debates concern which aspects of time are genuinely part of
time's intrinsic nature, and which, in some sense, are
mind-dependent.
Arguably, the most important debate concerns time's passage: does
time pass in reality, or is the division of events into past,
present, and future simply a reflection of our temporal
perspective--a result of the interaction between a "static" world
and minds capable of representing it? Le Poidevin argues that,
contrary to what perception and memory lead us to suppose, time
does not really pass, and this surprising conclusion can be
reconciled with the characteristic features of temporal experience.
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