Paradoxes of Time Travel

Ryan Wasserman explores a range of fascinating questions raised by the possibility of time travel.

This volume explores a wide-range of puzzles such as the grandfather paradox, the bootstrapping paradox, and the twin paradox of special relativity. Ryan Wasserman draws out their implications for our understanding of time, tense, freedom, fatalism, causation, counterfactuals, laws of nature, persistence, change, and mereology. Paradoxes of Time Travel is written in an accessible style, and filled with entertaining examples from physics, science fiction, and popular culture.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Temporal Paradoxes


• 3: Paradoxes of Freedom I


• 4: Paradoxes of Freedom II


• 5: Causal Paradoxes


• 6: Paradoxes of Identity

About the author

Ryan Wasserman is Professor of Philosophy at Western Washington University, and co-editor of Metametaphysics (OUP 2009).

Summary

Ryan Wasserman explores a range of fascinating puzzles raised by the possibility of time travel with entertaining examples from physics, science fiction, and popular culture, and he draws out their implications for our understanding of time, tense, freedom, fatalism, causation, counterfactuals, laws of nature, persistence, change, and mereology.

Additional text

This is a good read.

Product details

• Authors: Ryan Wasserman, Ryan (Western Washington University) Wasserman, Wasserman Ryan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9780198865209
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886520-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; popular science, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / General, SCIENCE / Physics / Relativity, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Relativity physics