Haeran Jeong
Doctoral researcher, Department of Philosophy
hajeon@utu.fi |
time consciousness; timing; embodied cognition; enactivism; modal realism; virtuality; daoism
Temporal experience from the perspective of an embodied agent
I have been a doctoral researcher at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in Germany since October 2023 and at University of Turku since August 2024. I studied Philosophy for 2015-2022 at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and I received Bachelor's degree with the thesis "Selbstbildung zum wahren Menschen bei Zhuangzi (The Self-cultivation into a true person in Zhuangzi)" in 2019 and Master's degree with the thesis "Lewis and Deleuze on Modality: Theory and Common Sense" in 2022. I worked as a research assistant for 2020-2022 and a postgraduate researcher at the Institute for occupational and social medicine, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf for 2023. I am currently pursuing a double degree at University of Turku and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.
My doctoral research aims to develop a novel approach to temporal experience by embracing embodied cognition. The central claim is that the temporality of bodily states, spontaneous and deliberate action is constitutive of experiencing time, such as temporal flow of dynamic events, its duration or interval, and speed. By introducing enactivist approach, I am reframing the previous philosophical debate over temporal experience, conducting conceptual as well as phenomenological analysis of psychological studies on duration estimation, and specifying temporal dynamics between spontaneous and deliberate action.