Matyáš Moravec
Biographic Data
| ID | 4298190 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matyáš Moravec |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matyáš |
| FAMILY NAME | Moravec |
| SIGNATURE | MORAVEC M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8477-6065 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Roots 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 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 archival documents, I demonstrate that sophisticated theories of m…
Analytical Bergsonism
This paper discusses the phenomenon of “analytical appropriations;” movements based around analytic translations of non-analytic thinkers or traditions. It uses this discussion to propose a new instance of such appropriations: Analytical Bergsonism. Recent years have seen a notable increase in engagements between analytic philosophers and the philosophy of Henri Bergson (1859–1941), who has generally been considered as standing outside the analyt…
Reply to my critics
I would like to begin by expressing my gratitude to Yasushi Hirai and Mark Sinclair for their insightful comments. This gratitude extends both to comments presented in this special issue and to their earlier feedback on many of the arguments whose articulation led up to the publication of the monograph. I am particularly delighted that the comments in this special issue have come specifically from them. Both have been my great exemplars for how I…
Taking time seriously
This paper explores the influence of Henri Bergson’s (1859–1941) philosophy of time on three early twentieth-century British philosophers: Karin Costelloe-Stephen (1889–1953), Hilda Oakeley (1867–1950), and May Sinclair (1863–1946). I demonstrate that three central claims of Bergson’s account of temporal experience (novelty, memory, and indivisibility) were creatively incorporated into their accounts of time. All these philosophers place time at …
Henri Bergson and the Philosophy of Religion
This book connects the philosophy of Henri Bergson to contemporary debates in metaphysics and analytic philosophy of religion. More specifically, the book demonstrates how Bergson’s philosophy of time can respond to the problem of foreknowledge and free will. The question of how humans can be free if God knows everything has been a perennial issue of debate in analytic philosophy of religion. The solution to this problem relies heavily on what on…
Revealing the counterfactuals
This paper argues that the possibility of revealing counterfactuals of creaturely freedom to agents in possible worlds forming part of God’s natural knowledge poses a new problem for Molinism. This problem best comes to light when considering the phenomenon of stubbornness, i.e., the conscious refusal of fulfilling the providential plan revealed to and intended for us by another agent. The reason why this problem has gone unnoticed is that the us…
Fluctuating maximal God
This paper explores a variety of perfect being theism that combines Yujin Nagasawa’s maximal God thesis with the view that God is not atemporal. We argue that the original maximal God thesis still implicitly relies on a “static” view of divine perfections. Instead, following the recent re-evaluation of divine immutability by analytic philosophers, we propose that thinking of divine great-making properties (omnipotence, omniscience etc.) as fluctu…
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Fluctuating maximal God
This paper explores a variety of perfect being theism that combines Yujin Nagasawa’s maximal God thesis with the view that God is not atemporal. We argue that the original maximal God thesis still implicitly relies on a “static” view of divine perfections. Instead, following the recent re-evaluation of divine immutability by analytic philosophers, we propose that thinking of divine great-making properties (omnipotence, omniscience etc.) as fluctu…
Revealing the counterfactuals
This paper argues that the possibility of revealing counterfactuals of creaturely freedom to agents in possible worlds forming part of God’s natural knowledge poses a new problem for Molinism. This problem best comes to light when considering the phenomenon of stubbornness, i.e., the conscious refusal of fulfilling the providential plan revealed to and intended for us by another agent. The reason why this problem has gone unnoticed is that the us…
Taking time seriously
This paper explores the influence of Henri Bergson’s (1859–1941) philosophy of time on three early twentieth-century British philosophers: Karin Costelloe-Stephen (1889–1953), Hilda Oakeley (1867–1950), and May Sinclair (1863–1946). I demonstrate that three central claims of Bergson’s account of temporal experience (novelty, memory, and indivisibility) were creatively incorporated into their accounts of time. All these philosophers place time at …
Henri Bergson and the Philosophy of Religion
This book connects the philosophy of Henri Bergson to contemporary debates in metaphysics and analytic philosophy of religion. More specifically, the book demonstrates how Bergson’s philosophy of time can respond to the problem of foreknowledge and free will. The question of how humans can be free if God knows everything has been a perennial issue of debate in analytic philosophy of religion. The solution to this problem relies heavily on what on…
Analytical Bergsonism
This paper discusses the phenomenon of “analytical appropriations;” movements based around analytic translations of non-analytic thinkers or traditions. It uses this discussion to propose a new instance of such appropriations: Analytical Bergsonism. Recent years have seen a notable increase in engagements between analytic philosophers and the philosophy of Henri Bergson (1859–1941), who has generally been considered as standing outside the analyt…
Reply to my critics
I would like to begin by expressing my gratitude to Yasushi Hirai and Mark Sinclair for their insightful comments. This gratitude extends both to comments presented in this special issue and to their earlier feedback on many of the arguments whose articulation led up to the publication of the monograph. I am particularly delighted that the comments in this special issue have come specifically from them. Both have been my great exemplars for how I…
The Roots 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 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 archival documents, I demonstrate that sophisticated theories of m…
Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Philosophical and Theoretical Analysis (4 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (2 works) · Philosophy of religion (2 works) · Philosophy, Science, and History (2 works) · Political philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works)