Reprint

Time Travel

Edited by
October 2022
132 pages
  • ISBN978-3-0365-5539-3 (Hardback)
  • ISBN978-3-0365-5540-9 (PDF)

This book is a reprint of the Special Issue Time Travel that was published in

Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities
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.

Format
  • Hardback
License
© by the authors
Keywords
time travel; future-bias; temporal preferences; time travel; logical possibility; changing; fixing; annulling; otherwising; causal loops; self-fulfilling prophecies; time travel; foreknowledge; coincidence; inexplicability; time travel; exterminous hypertime; hypertime; non-Ludovician; growing block theory; eternalism; presentism; overdetermination; truth in fiction; time travel; reverse causation; fatalism; ability; autoinfanticide; counterfactual dependence; possible worlds; teleportation; personal identity; personal fission; Newcomb Problem; time travel; counterfactuals; causation; miracles; time travel; grandfather paradox; ability; freedom; fixity; causal asymmetry; time travel; counterfactuals; present; loewer; n/a