Kaufmann, A. and Viera, G. orcid.org/0000-0002-3183-2294 (2026) Temporal cognition in apes. Australasian Journal of Philosophy. ISSN: 0004-8402
Abstract
In humans, at least some of our ability to coordinate our actions with the timing of events in our world is due to our capacities for temporal cognition. However, controversy arises when we turn our attention to the animal world. In this paper, we will argue that apes, especially Taï Chimpanzees, are capable of genuine temporal cognition. That is, they are able to mentally represent and reason about time in cognition. We do this by developing a novel analysis of the mental representation of time.
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| Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2026 The Authors. Except as otherwise noted, this author-accepted version of a journal article published in Australasian Journal of Philosophy is made available via the University of Sheffield Research Publications and Copyright Policy under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ © 2026 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | temporal cognition; animal cognition; temporal representation; cognitive science |
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| Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
| Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Nov 2024 09:59 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Apr 2026 10:59 |
| Status: | Published online |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis Group |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Identification Number: | 10.1080/00048402.2026.2649411 |
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| Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:220119 |
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