Time Travel and Self-Consistency: Implications for Determinism and the Human Condition

Author: King D.

Source: Ratio, Volume 12, Number 3, September 1999 , pp. 271-278(8)

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Abstract:

In this paper I examine a recent scientific claim that travel into the past, so long as a ‘consistent’ trajectory is followed, may be possible. I then argue that the possibility of such travel has unexpected implications for the free will-determinism debate. In particular, human existence may be, at best, determinate but uncaused.

Language: English

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle, Western Australia

Publication date: 1999-09-01