Time Travel

• Outros Autores: Richmond, Alasdair (Editor)
• Formato: Recurso Electrónico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Assuntos: 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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Resumo

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.

Descrição Física

1 electronic resource (132 p.)

ISBN

books978-3-0365-5540-9
9783036555409
9783036555393

Acesso

Open Access