Dr Matyas Moravec
Gifford Postdoctoral Fellow Philosophy
Research areas
I primarily work on late 19th and early 20th-century philosophy (Bergson, Broad, Eddington, McTaggart, Oakeley, Sinclair, Stebbing) in France and Britain. My current project is investigating the ways through which "psychical research" (i.e., the study of paranormal phenomena like telepathy, clairvoyance, or ghosts) influenced views about religion, time, causality, and free will in early 20th-century British philosophy.
I completed my MA at the University of Aberdeen and my MPhil and PhD at the University of Cambridge. I also spent a year working on Bergson at the École normale supérieure in Paris. Prior to coming to St Andrews, I was postdoctoral research associate at Durham University and lecturer at Queen's University Belfast. I am originally from the Czech Republic.
My personal website is here.
Selected publications
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How logic alone may prove that time doesn't exist
Moravec, M., 15 Apr 2024, The Conversation.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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Henri Bergson and the philosophy of religion: God, freedom, and duration
Moravec, M., 4 Aug 2023, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 198 p. (Routledge studies in twentieth-century philosophy)Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Stebbing and Eddington in the shadow of Bergson
Moravec, M. & West, P., 1 Jan 2023, In: History of Philosophy Quarterly. 40, 1, p. 59-84 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Translators' preface
Moravec, M. (Translator) & Potoček, J. (Translator), 1 Jul 2023, In: Bergsoniana. 3Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Do we have free will – and do we want it? Thomas the tank engine offers clues
Moravec, M., 6 Oct 2022, The Conversation.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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Revealing the counterfactuals: molinism, stubbornness, and deception
Moravec, M., Aug 2022, In: International Journal for Philosophy of Religion. 92, p. 31-48 18 p., 92.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Taking time seriously: the Bergsonism of Karin Costelloe-Stephen, Hilda Oakeley, and May Sinclair
Moravec, M., 15 Feb 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: British Journal for the History of Philosophy. Latest Articles, 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A Bergsonian response to McTaggart's paradox
Moravec, M., 31 Dec 2021, The Bergsonian mind. Sinclair, M. & Wolf, Y. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 417-431 15 p. (Routledge philosophical minds).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Aquinas and Kripke on the genealogy of essential properties
Moravec, M., 25 Oct 2021, In: The Heythrop Journal. 62, 6, p. 1025-1037 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Eternity, relative realities, and ontological idealism about time
Moravec, M., 28 Sept 2021, In: TheoLogica. 5, 1, p. 175–196 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review