ABSTRACT
While the temporal content of experience and perception has historically been an important topic in philosophy and psychology, the amount of attention devoted to it waned somewhat in the latter half of the twentieth century. This chapter focuses on two areas of brewing ideas. The first is experimental. The rise of experimental psychology in Germany in the 1800s had as one of its primary paradigms of investigation the nature of temporal perception. This research was often framed as an investigation of the time sense, and by this, researchers typically meant that they understood the temporal content of perception to be analogous to the spatial content of perception. Parallel to the trend in experimental psychology, a brew of ideas was fermenting in philosophical circles. The temporal content of perception, including introspection, is topics that are attracting increasing interest among philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists.
