Time Travel

• Other Authors: Richmond, Alasdair (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Philosophy; time travel; future-bias; temporal preferences; logical possibility; changing; fixing; annulling; otherwising; causal loops; self-fulfilling prophecies; foreknowledge; coincidence; inexplicability; exterminous hypertime; hypertime; non-Ludovician; growing block theory; eternalism; presentism; overdetermination; truth in fiction; reverse causation; fatalism; ability; autoinfanticide; counterfactual dependence; possible worlds; teleportation; personal identity; personal fission; Newcomb Problem; counterfactuals; causation; miracles; grandfather paradox; freedom; fixity; causal asymmetry; present; loewer; n/a
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Summary

Philosophy of time travel is a fast-growing branch of philosophy, encompassing issues from metaphysics and epistemology through to the philosophy of science and philosophy of action. This Special Issue of Philosophies offers eight original contributions to the philosophy of time travel from expert practitioners in the field. Topics covered include causal loops, Grandfather Paradoxes, the dimensionality of time, attitudes to different times, foreknowledge, and the possibility of changing the past.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (132 p.)

ISBN

books978-3-0365-5540-9
9783036555409
9783036555393

Access

Open Access