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Time Travel

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 p...

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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
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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

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