Activities

HeaR first workshop - "Perceiving Time: New Perspectives on Temporal Experience"

May 2025, 27-28,
Sala "Gallino", Department of Philosophy and Science of Education, University of Turin, Via Sant'Ottavio 20, 10124, Turin

In philosophy, problems of temporal perception cut across many different issues. Consider listening to a piano concerto: as you hear a C major scale, you begin to anticipate the coming note. The pianist defies your expectation, resting for a surprising amount of time. The pause seems to last forever. Finally, you are relieved to hear his scale completed.

This raises the issue of how expectation, memory, and knowledge figure in the perception of events as they unfold over time. Such issues are puzzling when we consider that our perception is closely tied to what occurs at the present moment – after all, we only perceive what currently impinges on our senses. On the other hand, it is evident that the pianist’s pause has a certain temporal extension, stretching beyond the present moment. In this way, your perception seems to transcend the present, allowing you to experience a temporally extended phenomenon – and perhaps even anticipate what comes next.

Philosophical puzzles like this one are at the heart of our workshop (May 27–28 2025; Turin, Italy). We aim to explore new developments in the philosophy of temporal perception, with a particular focus on the most up-to-date issues in the field, broadly construed. We welcome contributions from all approaches empirically informed, historical or purely philosophical.

Keynote speakers: Valtteri Arstila (Turku University), Elvira Di Bona (Turin University), Yuval Dolev (Bar-Ilan University), Haeran Jeong (Turku University), Matthew Nudds (Warwick University), Giuliano Torrengo (Milan University), Daniele Cassaghi (University of Turin)

    Programme

May 27
Sala Gallino, dept. of Philosophy and Science of Education, University of Turin, Via Sant'Ottavio 20, 10124, Turin 

Yuval Dolev (Bar-Ilan University)
The Parts/Wholes Distinction and How It Figures in Motion and the Perception of Motion
9.15-10.30

Elvira Di Bona (University of Turin)
Time for Sounds
10.35-11.50

Break

Jack Shardlow (University of Edinburgh)
The Alternative Father of the Specious Present: the Experience of Time, from E. Robert Kelly's The Alternative: a Study in Psychology
12.15-12.45

Lunch

Haeran Jeong (University of Turku and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
Peripersonal Present: the Temporal Perspective of an Embodied agent
14.30-15.45

Ombeline Defrance (École normale supérieure – Paris)
In Favor of an Alternative Phenomenology of the Intimate Consciousness of Time: Questioning the Husserlian Continuum of Time Consciousness thanks to Phenomenological Psychiatry
15.50-16.20

Victoria Gross (University of Oxford)
Does Time Depend on Memory, or Does Memory Depend on Time?
16.20-16.50

May 28
Sala Gallino, dept. of Philosophy and Science of Education, University of Turin, Via Sant'Ottavio 20, 10124, Turin

Matthew Nudds (University of Warwick)
Apparent Persistence in Auditory Perception
09.15-10.30

Giuliano Torrengo (University of Milan)
Attention and Temporal Awareness
10.35-11.50

Break

Justin Greenberg (University of California – Irvine)
Iconic Representation and the Temporality of Episodic Memory
12.15-12.45

Lunch

Valtteri Arstila (University of Turku)
Two Aspects of Phenomeno-temporal Realism
14.15-15.30

Daniele Cassaghi (University of Turin)
Retentional Direct Realism
15.35-16.50 

This workshop is part of the activities of the FIS project HeaR “Hearing and Remembering” (FIS_00000243), led by prof. Elvira Di Bona (University of Turin).

Everybody interested is welcome

HeaR Research Week with Jerry Viera (Sheffield) - FIS visiting research project 

March 2025, 18-21 - University of Turin, Via Sant'Ottavio 20, 10124, Turin

March, 18

Sala Incontri 1 - Main Library DFE

9.15-10.45

Daniele Cassaghi (UniTo):
The Patchy Specious Present

10.50-12.20

Mauro Lenti (UniTo):

Exploration in Child Development: A Temporal Perception Argument Against the Free-Energy Principle

14.00-16.00

Jerry Viera (University of Sheffield)
Perception and the Naïve Conception of Time (MUMBLE talk - Link)

 

March, 19

Sala Incontri 1 - Main Library DFE

9.30-11.30

Mental imagery: brain storming with the MUMBLE’s group
(with Carola Barbero, Elvira Di Bona, Alberto Voltolini, Agostino Pinna Pintor, Fabrizio Calzavarini, Davide Bordini, Matteo Plebani, Elisa Caldarola, Daniele Cassaghi, Donald Oxtoby, Mariaenrica Giannuzzi, Niccolò Nanni)

Sala Incontri 2 - Main Library DFE

13.30-15.00 

Mariaenrica Giannuzzi (UniTo):

Embodiment of Deep Time

15.05-16.35

Donald Oxtoby (UniTo): 

Does Perceptual Recognition Require Judgment?

March, 20
Sala Incontri 1 - Main Library DFE

16.00-18.00

Jerry Viera (University of Sheffield)

Constructing and Locating Events in Time (MAP talk)

March, 21

Sala Incontri 2 - Main Library DFE

9.15-10.45

Niccolò Nanni (UniTo):

Multimodal Aesthetic Perception

10.50-12.20

Elvira Di Bona (UniTo):
Carl Stumpf and Time 

12.30-14.00

Edoardo Bronzolo (UniTo):
Reflecting and Being Present: a Temporal Comparison of Introspection and Meditation 

If you wish to attend, please contact danielemario.cassaghi@unito.it or donald.oxtoby@unito.it