The Paradoxes of Time Travel
https://doi.org/10.25206/2542-0488-2024-9-4-63-72
EDN: WRNMMY
Abstract
The article argues that time travel is metaphysical possible, and that so-called the paradoxes of time travel are oddities, not impossibilities. The defense of the possibility of time travel involves a commitment to (a) enduring things having temporal as well as spatial parts, (b) psychological continuity and connectedness and causal continuity as criteria of personal identity, and (c) a distinction between external and personal time.
The present paper summarizes a series of lectures of the same title, given as the Gavin David Young Lectures in Philosophy at the University of Adelaide in July, 1971.
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Lewis D. The Paradoxes of Time Travel. Omsk Scientific Bulletin. Series Society. History. Modernity. 2024;9(4). (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25206/2542-0488-2024-9-4-63-72. EDN: WRNMMY
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