PARADOXES OF TIME TRAVEL C

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-19-879333-5
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 561 g

Ryan Wasserman presents a wide-ranging exploration of puzzles raised by the possibility of time travel, including the grandfather paradox, the bootstrapping paradox, and the twin paradox of special relativity. He draws out their implications for our understanding of time, tense, freedom, fatalism, causation, counterfactuals, laws of nature, persistence, change, and mereology. The Paradoxes of Time Travel is written in an accessible style, and filled with entertaining examples from physics, science fiction, and popular culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wasserman

Wasserman, Ryan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Relativität, Gravitation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Introduction

- 2: Temporal Paradoxes

- 3: Paradoxes of Freedom I

- 4: Paradoxes of Freedom II

- 5: Causal Paradoxes

- 6: Paradoxes of Identity

Über Autor(innen)

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