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Presidential Address: Reflections on the History of the Concept of Time.- I. Time and the Physical Sciences.- The Time Coordinate in Einstein’s Restricted Theory of Relativity.- General Relativity and Time in the Solar System.- Zeit als physikalischer Begriff.- Time in Particle Physics.- Time in Statistical Physics and Special Relativity.- The Myth of the Passage of Time.- Time Asymmetry, Time Reversal, and Irreversibility.- No Paradox in the Theory of Time Anisotropy.- Pierre Curie’s Principle of One-Way Process.- In Defence of the Direction of Time.- Creative Time.- II. Time in the Life Sciences.- Temporal Order as the Origin of Spatial Order in Embryos.- Time in the Evolutionary Process.- The Measurement of Perceptual Durations.- Oscillations as Possible Basis for Time Perception.- Processing of Temporal Information and the Cognitive Theory of Time Experience.- The Psychophysical Structure of Temporal Information.- The Dimensions of the Sensible Present.- Time, Time Stance, and Existence.- Personality and the Psychology of Time.- III. Time, Philosophy and the Logic of Time Concept.- The Notion of the Present.- Instants and Intervals.- The Fiction of Instants.- On the Reality of Becoming.- Whitehead and the Philosophy of Time.- IV. Time and Culture.- The Deification of Time.- The Darwinian Revolution in the Concept of Time.- Temporal Attitudes in Four Negro Subcultures.- On Hegel — A Study in Sorcery.- Time and the Modern Self: Descartes, Rousseau, Beckett.- Time and the Modern Self: A Change in Dramatic Form.- The Study of Time..- V. Special Session on Flight Dysrhythmia.- The Psychological Effects of Rapid Shifts in Temporal Referents.- Evaluation of Circadian Dyschronism during Transmeridian Flights.- Some Factors in the Production of Dysrhythmia andDisorientation Associated with Rapid Latitudinal Transfer.- Discussion Notes on the Lecture by Dr. Gooddy.