Title: Perspective and duration perception
Abstract: Though there is no sense modality dedicated to time perception, as perceivers we are somehow put in touch with facts about the duration, order, and rhythmic structure of events. Not all agree that access to time is perceptual, but most do. In that case, we might expect that access to temporal features is perspectival, in a manner that mirrors perspectival features of shape, color, and sound perception. From here, the square somehow looks trapezoidal, while also looking square and oblique to my line of sight. Time flies, or crawls, and I will suggest that this is due to the perception of duration being perspectival. Temporal perspectives work a bit differently than spatial, chromatic, or auditory perspectives do. With duration, at least, we give pride of place to the perspectival features, while in most other cases perception focuses us on the observer-independent features of the scenes we encounter.