Time Travel

• Diğer Yazarlar: Richmond, Alasdair (Editör)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Konular: 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 Erişim: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Özet

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.

Fiziksel Özellikler

1 electronic resource (132 p.)

ISBN

books978-3-0365-5540-9
9783036555409
9783036555393

Erişim

Open Access