Jenann Ismael is a professor of philosophy at Columbia University, affiliate of the Zuckerman Institute, and member of FQXi. She is the author of Essays on Symmetry, The Situated Self, and How Physics Makes Us Free.
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What is time? What does it mean for time to pass? Is it possible to travel in time? What is the difference between the past and future? Until the work of Newton, these questions were purely topics of philosophical speculation. Since then we've learned a g... SEE MORE