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"What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know"
St Augustine

About

Time: Between Metaphysics and Psychology is an interdisciplinary three-year project funded by the AHRC, led by Christoph Hoerl (Philosophy, Warwick) and Teresa McCormack (Psychology, Queen's University Belfast).

The aim of the project is to provide an empirically informed critical examination of the relationship between our everyday understanding of time, and time as typically understood within modern science. Philosophers often claim that there is a deep gulf between common sense and science when it comes to how each of them understands what time is. Specifically, they are assumed to involve radically different commitments regarding the metaphysics of time. The project aims to investigate the extent to which research on the psychology of time actually bears this out, or might indeed also point to ways of bridging this perceived gulf.

The project began in January 2017, and has also involved three post-doctoral research fellows: two in philosophy, Alison Fernandes and Jack Shardlow, and one in psychology, Ruth Lee.  Project activities include a series of workshops, international conferences and public performances in collaboration with arts groups.

Project Team

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Christoph Hoerl
University of Warwick
Philosophy
Principal Investigator
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Teresa McCormack
Queen's University Belfast
Psychology
Co-Investigator
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Ruth Lee
Queen's University Belfast
Psychology
Postdoctoral Researcher
from January 2018
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Jack Shardlow
University of Warwick
Philosophy
Postdoctoral Researcher
​from April 2019
Alison Fernandes
Trinity College Dublin
Philosophy
Postdoctoral Researcher May 2017 - July 2018

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