Alex Kaiserman

Alex Kaiserman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He works on questions at the intersection of metaphysics and ethics; for example, questions which explore the connections between causation and responsibility, possibility and free will, or time and punishment.

Alex’s first book, How to Get Back to the Future, will be published in the UK by Viking Press. It traces the history of philosophical thinking about time travel from its origins in 19th-Century utopian fantasy, through the pulp fiction magazines of the 20s and 30s, right up to cutting-edge developments in metaphysics and tense logic, in search of answers to the questions at the heart of all time travel stories: Could a time-traveller change the past? For that matter, could they change the future? What would happen if they tried? What would happen if they succeeded?