Religion in a Communist Setting: The Curious Case of Yugoslavia

• Speaker: Andrej Bukovac-Mimica, University of Zagreb/Helsinki, Theology
• Location: C0.02, Institute of Advanced Studies, Zeeman Building, University of Warwick [map linkLink opens in a new window]
• Time & Date: 17:30-19:00 GMT, 28 Nov 2024, Thursday Week 9, Term 1.
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Matyáš Moravec

Queens University Belfast
Philosophy
24 Oct, 2024

The Spooky Origins of Hypertime

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 20^th 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 “psychical research,” the study of psychical phenomena such as telepathy, clairvoyance, or ghosts, widely popular towards the end of the 19^th and the beginning of the 20^th 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.

Stephen Connelly

University of Warwick
School of Law
14 Nov, 2024

The Spooky Origins of Hypertime

In his Allegories of the Laws, Philo of Alexandria sets himself against the Hellenistic philosophers of his time (early 1st century CE). The ‘pride’ of these philosophers, Philo claims, consists in having made pure reason the governor of the soul, and the philosopher governor of the rational city. Yet Philo’s aim is to justify his faith using the tools of Greco-Roman thought, and so, this talk will argue, rather than casting aside the prevailing ‘prideful’ conceptualisation of soul, Philo reconfigures the soul by internalising within it ethical ‘humiliation’. The paper examines a likely key source for this notion of humiliation, and follows through the consequences for Philo’s moral and legal theory.