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Our 'Irrational' Past | Thursday 24 Oct | Maty谩拧 Moravec, Belfast | IAS Seminar Room C0.02 (Hybrid)
IAS Seminar Room (C0.02) - Zeeman Building

Talk title: The Spooky Origins of Hypertime

Abstract:
Hypertime is a theory that postulates that time has two or more dimensions. Much of the groundwork underlying current theories of hypertime in analytic philosophy is generally attributed to discussions in the second half of the 20th century—either in connection with the objection against the passage of time or as a means to resolve problems in the philosophy of time travel. This paper demonstrates that the historical roots of hypertime extend much further back. I will demonstrate that sophisticated theories of multi-dimensional time, hitherto neglected by historians of philosophy, were developed by philosophers decades before the interest in time travel took off. These early pioneers of hypertime were working on 鈥減sychical research,鈥 the study of psychical phenomena such as telepathy, clairvoyance, or ghosts, widely popular towards the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. They developed multi-dimensional time as a tool to resolve various problems with precognition, the purported ability to see the future. I will conclude by indicating the pitfalls of neglecting this important chapter in the history of the philosophy of time.

Hybrid Seminar
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Meeting ID: 361 985 080 834
Passcode: yAcRXL

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