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Matyáš Moravec

3 papers in the library · 22 citations · publishing 2025

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The Roots of Hypertime

Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie September 26, 2025 Matyáš Moravec

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 about time travel in the second half of the twentieth century. This paper demonstrates that the historical roots of hypertime extend much further back. Drawing on recently uncovered...

Linguistic Analysis and Psychical Research 1940–1960: The Case of Casimir Lewy

Journal of the history of philosophy July 1, 2025 Matyáš Moravec 1 citation

abstract: This paper explores a hitherto overlooked chapter in the history of analytic philosophy, namely the role that psychical research (i.e. the study of phenomena like telepathy, clairvoyance, ghosts, or communication with spirits of the dead) played in British philosophy between 1940 and 1960. This paper focuses on Casimir Lewy’s (1919–91) engagement with psychical research and...

DOI: 10.1353/hph.2025.a964609 (opens in new tab) Casimir effect Linguistics Classical mechanics

C. D. Broad on Precognitions and John William Dunne

Journal of the history of philosophy 2025 Matyáš Moravec 21 citations

abstract: C. D. Broad developed three different accounts of time over the course of his career. Emily Thomas recently argued that the shift from the first to the second of these was motivated by his engagement with the philosophy of Samuel Alexander. In this paper, I argue that the shift from the second to the third was instigated by Broad’s engagement with precognitive dreams and with the...