Time Travel

Born of science fiction, thinking about time travel has allowed us to visit possible and lost worlds, and rediscover the past through modern eyes. It also raises big puzzles: If you travelled back in time and killed your grandfather when he was a young man, would you still exist? Would changing the past mean you returned to a different present? What about travelling to the future? Two philosophers and a science fiction writer discuss time travel, and how thinking and writing about it has changed science and philosophy.


SPEAKERS

Adam Roberts
Professor of Nineteenth Century Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London

Bryan W. Roberts,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, LSE

Emily Thomas
Lecturer in Philosophy, Durham University


CHAIR

Clare Moriarty, Fellow, The Forum; Doctoral Researcher, King’s College London


More information: www.philosophy-forum.org

Recorded on 5 December 2017
Wolfson Theatre, LSE