Philosophy Of Time Research Articles

Teil und Ganzes in Karl Bühlers Sprachtheorie

Summary In his Theory of language, written in 1934, the psychologist Karl Bühler proposes applying the concept of Gestalt, developed at that time in philosophy and psychology, to the study of linguistic phenomena. This paper outlines and critically examines Bühler’s proposal. In particular, this paper highlights the two-sided approach that Bühler takes. Bühler shows that both the sound shape (Gestalt) and phonematic signalment (elements) are required for the recognition of linguistic phenomena. Accordingly, two methods of word recognition can be identified in the speaker and listener. The questions that arise in this context about the content of the perception realized when a word is heard will be briefly presented in this paper.

Az idő mint a színházi gondolkodás eszköze – és lehetősége

The paper explores some aspects of the theatre through different concepts of time in philosophy. It explores how aspects of temporality can open up new possibilities for discussing the theatre. It addresses questions concerning the theatre director’s concept of time, the measurement of performance time, and attempts to develop a definition of theatrical time based on the theories of Anne Ubersfeld and Patrice Pavis. The paper seeks ways to discuss the actor’s work beyond the duality of actor and role.

Қазақ дүниетанымындағы кеңістік пен уақыт түсініктерінің қалыптасуы

The problem of space and time in philosophy was considered as one of the commonly important problems, regardless of what historical period, no matter what civilizational structures they entered. Space and time are base of our understanding of the world. The article identifies the problems of space and time that take a special historical and philosophical place in the content structure of the Kazakh worldview and the understanding is presented regarding the typical features through the analysis of the these categories. It also addresses the directions of the forms of space and time in the nomadic civilization and traditional Kazakh culture. The concepts of space and time in the worldview of the Kazakh people are clearly explained by various examples and the everyday use of the categories of space and time in the national vision of Kazakh people is provided. The presented article is intended to reveal the main dynamics of time and space in the worldview of the Kazakh people (time, past, world, nomadic tradition, life, etc.). The existence of special views of Kazakh thinkers, characteristic of space and time, is the essence of the research problem. Specific examples show that the Kazakh people had their own temporal and spatial dimensions and they were given a philosophical analysis. The article analyzes the features of comparison and identification in the use of the categories of space and time. The place of the categories of space and time as the basis of the nomadic life of the Kazakh people is determined. The relevance of the topic lies in the fact that the use and specificity of the categories of space and time in the Kazakh worldview are explained by various examples, and the role and significance in the development of mankind are revealed from a philosophical point of view.

The philosopher versus the physicist: Susan Stebbing on Eddington and the passage of time

ABSTRACT In this paper, I provide the first in-depth discussion of Susan Stebbing’s views concerning our experience of the passage of time – a key issue for many metaphysicians writing in the first half of the twentieth century. I focus on Stebbing’s claims about the passage of time in Philosophy and the Physicists and her disagreement with Arthur Eddington over how best to account for that experience. I show that Stebbing’s concern is that any attempt to provide a scientific account of the passage of time will face problems, since the events described by physics are necessarily measured against the passage of time. I then identify views elsewhere in her philosophical corpus that can help shed light on this claim. Ultimately, I argue, Stebbing’s views on time should be construed as part of her wider commitment to ‘realism’. To be a realist, for Stebbing, is to accept a set of propositions which are a pre-requisite for even beginning to analyse the world around us. For Stebbing, I argue, part of what it means to be a realist is to accept our experience of the passage of time as something fundamental that cannot itself be subject to analysis.

Review of the volume „Timpul in filosofie si stiinta” [Time in philosophy and science], author: Andreea Elena Matic, Lumen Publishing House, 2017

The volume "Time in philosophy and science", published in 2017 by Lumen Publishing House from Iasi, Romania, is a meeting with the books and time, more precisely with time in philosophy and science, as the author, Andreea Elena Matic proposes us to agree on relativity, but also on the absolute of time. Time is an obsession of each of us because it is never enough for us. Time is personified as an incarnation of the divinity or, on the contrary, an incarnation of the infernal, of the less elevated area of us and of all the universe. We all have concerns about what time means in the area of magic, esotericism, science, about how to run away from its passage, or from our passage through time. Time is a fountain, time is an eternal return, time is safe and linear, an endless continuity of existence, time is what we all try to steal or lose.

It is Time for Philosophy to Return to the City

Philosophy has been a subversive practice since the time of Socrates. Recognizing no authority other than the persuasiveness of dialectics, philosophy designated a thinking beyond the boundaries of the city: an estranging conception, an elsewhere of thought. It is from this critical distance that philosophy derived its political vocation. In the era of global capitalism, however, philosophy has become institutionalized and lost its subversive potential. To this end, philosophy has accepted that it should no longer pose too many questions, especially the ones which are most fundamental, resulting in a dearth of in-depth public questioning, and the slumber of critical reasoning. Hence, philosophy needs to rediscover its political vocation in order to reawaken consciences and to once again embrace that theoretical and practical commitment which never accepts anything without critical reflection. By doing so, it will be possible to restore philosophy to its original role as a guiding light for the community.

Slowness Out of Sync - Understandings of Time in Ashtanga Yoga

ABSTRACT Yoga is often presented as a ‘slow’ form of exercise. Yoga magazines are filled with advice about how to ‘slow down’. However, Ashtanga yoga is considered dynamic and ‘fast’—something that dates back to its role in the modern re-invention of hatha yoga in India, highly influenced by European physical practices. It is therefore paradoxical that it has become part of the craving for ‘slow’ forms of exercise. This article argues that, when looking at the role of time in contemporary yoga practice, we first need to examine critically the different understandings of time that are part of the practice, and their geo-political circumstances. Methodologically, the analysis will be based in an auto-ethnographical approach and textual analysis of descriptions of Ashtanga yoga, especially by its main authority Pattabhi Jois (1915–2009) and his students. Philosophically, the article will draw upon the way time has been discussed (and the way Western concepts of time in philosophy, history, social sciences and anthropology have been questioned) within post-colonial theory. The analysis will focus on the different discourses of time in Ashtanga yoga as they appear in the technique and conceptual framework. Special focus will be given to the coexistence and superpositions of different discourses and understandings of time in the contemporary transnational practice of Ashtanga yoga.

The Time of Philosophy (with Svetlana Alexievich)

ABSTRACTWeaving between anecdote, memoir and ‘empty time’, this fictional conversation with the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Unwomanly Face of War, Svetlana Alexievich, stages another genre of philosophy that would be, like her polyphonic style of documentary writing, not heroic as much as intimate. Set in Athens, while reaching towards Siberia, the conversation moves between the wartime 1940s and the late 2010s, gently broaching taboos of philosophical discourse: confession, ‘personal life’, memoir, love, family relations, doubt, fear, audience, and the time and place of writing, to arrive at a bare space of philosophical address, where nothing much happens except time passing. At once classically philosophical in its search for a form of life truthful to the Heraclitean dictum to search (for) oneself, and to Rousseauvian and Cartesian gestures of meditation and reverie, the essay also offers a language for thinking the textures and movements of thought – its quiet choreography.

Has Time of Philosophy Passed?

Has Time of Philosophy Passed?

The concept of time in philosophy: A comparative study between Theravada Buddhist and Henri Bergson's concept of time from Thai philosophers' perspectives

The problem of time has been fascinating thinkers since ancient times. Many philosophers (such as Plato, Aristotle, and Kant) and scientists (such as Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein) have tried to conceptualize and analyze time in many ways. There are two main concepts about time recognized as firstly, physical time that is objective and secondly, psychological time that is subjective and has a mind-dependent existence.In Theravada Buddhist philosophy, the idea that time does not exist independently is quite significant. Although many Western thinkers (such as the names mentioned in the previous paragraph) were interested in investigating the concept of time, only some of them agree with the idea that time existence depends on the mind. Henri Bergson, a renowned French philosopher, is one among a few who supported the idea that time is mind-dependent since he suggested that real time, which he called “duration”, exists merely in our consciousness. In this study, the researcher has critically examined Buddhist and Henri Bergson's concepts of time and sought to identify their similarities and their distinctiveness.This research compared a basic concept from Buddhist philosophy, the concept of time, with Henri Bergson's concept of time. The objective of this research was not to finalize the philosophical argument about the concept of time, but to attempt to come to a certain level of conclusion about the characteristics of time in Buddhism that have similar qualities as well as different qualities to the characteristics of time in Henri Bergson's explanation based on Thai philosophers' viewpoints.

Reflections on the volume Time in philosophy and science, author Andreea Elena Matic

Andreea Elena Matic proposes an interesting history of time in her volume Time in philosophy and science, published by LUMEN Publishing House from Iasi. The author carries us in a fascinating history of the idea of time, starting from Babylonian astronomies, to the Copernican revolution and, of course, the relativist time, lost in the black holes. How to cite: Sandu, A. (2017). Reflections on the volume „Time in philosophy and science”, author Andreea Elena Matic. Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty, Section: Philosophy and Humanistic Sciences, V(1), 71-74. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18662/lumenphs.2017.0501.06

The B-Theory of Time and the Notion of Change in the Yijing

This paper engages in a comparative analytic study of the notions of time and change in the Yijing . It analyzes the Yijing ’s philosophy of time as a version of the B-theory of time, which regards time as having multiple timelines, without any “privileged present.” In the Yijing ’s hexagrams, events and situations are characterized by earlier than, simultaneous with, and later than relationships. Time in the Yijing does not have a unique “present”; rather, time is marked by relationships among events and situations. Furthermore, in the Yijing’s philosophy of time, change is essential to the existence of time; change is what makes time possible.

Reply to Oaklander

ABSTRACT In September, 2016, I replied to an earlier draft of Oaklander’s Critique of my view of time for Manuscrito. Now he has published an extremely complex 50-page expanded version. There is no way that a reply in a journal could cover all the topics Oaklander discusses. So, I will stick mainly to my own view to which Oaklander was responding. My reply is in two parts. In the first, directed at Oaklander’s earlier draft, I say what I want to do in philosophy in general, and in the philosophy of time in particular. In the second part, I mention some places where he (apparently) misunderstands my view.

The Preface Of The Monograph Time In Philosophy And Science Published By Lumen Publishing House Iasi, 2017, Isbn 978-973-166-449-1, Author Andreea Elena Matic

The researcher Andreea Elena Matic (Mirica) proposes, through paper Time in Philosophy and Science , a return to debates on implications of time category in approaches of history, philosophy of science, particularly in history of cosmology, astronomy and astrophysics, starting with cosmological myths, beginnings of scientific cosmology in Antiquity (Pythagoras, Aristotle, Ptolemy), passing Modern Age with its titans (Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, Newton), underlining exceptional openings of limited and generalized relativity theory discovered by Einstein's genius. The historical perspective overlaps naturally with structural one, being also explored subtle consequences of quantum mechanics in research of Universe, especially through discussions concerning early Universe models, singularity states (Big Bang, Big Crunch, black holes), as well as later scenarios of its possible end, namely the beginning and the end of Universe, as they can be glimpsed at level of our knowledge of today. How to cite: Isac, I. (2017). The Preface of Monograph „Time in Philosophy and Science” published by Lumen Publishing House Iasi, 2017, ISBN 978-973-166-449-1, author Andreea Elena Matic. Jurnalul de Studii Juridice, XII (3-4), 99-102. https://doi.org/10.18662/jls/17

Kit Fine on Tense and Reality

Kit Fine (2005, 2006) recently described and defended a novel position in the philosophy of time, fragmentalism. It is not often that a new (and even perhaps a radically new) option appears in this old field, and for that reason alone these two essays merit serious attention. I will try to present briefly but fairly some of the considerations that Fine thinks favour fragmentalism. I will also weigh the merits of fragmentalism against the view that Fine presents as its chief rival, relativism, as well as the merits of both against the view that he calls anti-realism. Along the way, we should pick up a clearer picture of fragmentalism itself.

The Future of the Philosophy of Time

The Future of the Philosophy of Time

Book review: A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time, written by Adrian Bardon

Book review: A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time, written by Adrian Bardon

Book review: A Companion to the Philosophy of Time, written by Heather Dyke and Adrian Bardon

Book review: A Companion to the Philosophy of Time, written by Heather Dyke and Adrian Bardon

The Future of the Philosophy of Time, edited by Adrian Bardon.

The Future of the Philosophy of Time, edited by Adrian Bardon.

A brief history of the philosophy of time

A brief history of the philosophy of time