Time Travel 2nd Edition
A special issue of Philosophies (ISSN 2409-9287).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 15102
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Interests: time travel; time; space; philosophy of science; British empiricism
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Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to invite submissions for a second edition of this Special Issue of Philosophies, to be devoted to papers in the philosophy of time travel. The first edition features a wide range of work by outstanding practitioners of the philosophy of time travel, covering, e.g., problems in backwards causation, precognition, probability, agency and decision making, while also covering how time travel illuminates differing attitudes to future events, as well as multi-dimensional time models of time travel. However, in addition to the above, there are still plenty of areas of the subject for this Special Issue to explore. The philosophy of time travel now ranges from theories of how different interpretations of quantum mechanics might try to resolve Grandfather Paradoxes, through to discussions about the impact that time travel cases might have on our understanding of life’s value and death’s harm. Other topics include questions about philosophical aesthetics, probability theory, historical artefacts, abstract entities, divine identity, and the ultimate cosmological/theological origins of the universe. The philosophy of time travel can contain discussions of issues in ethics, the philosophy of religion, philosophy of science (including quantum physics and spacetime physics), theories of persistence, personal identity, the philosophy of fiction, or even the philosophy of computation. With time travel discussions proliferating in a host of philosophical sub-disciplines, my hope is that a second edition of this Special Issue may help extend the philosophy of time travel still further. Papers are invited from potential contributors on any aspect of the philosophy of time travel (including, but not exhausted by, the topics mentioned above and the topics in the list of keywords below). I look forward to your submissions.
Dr. Alasdair Richmond
Guest Editor
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