Eighteen. The Paradoxes of Time Travel
Author: Lewis, David
Source: Philosophical Papers Volume II, June 1987 , pp. 67-81(15)
Publisher: Oxford Scholarship Online Monographs
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Abstract:
This paper argues that time travel is possible, and that the paradoxes of time travel are oddities, not impossibilities. The defence of the possibility of time travel involves a commitment to enduring things having temporal as well as spatial parts, psychological continuity and connectedness and causal continuity as criteria of personal identity, and a distinction between external and personal time.Keywords: personal identity; backward causation; time travel; temporal parts; paradox of time travel; time
Document Type: Research article
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