PARADOXES OF TIME TRAVEL P

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-0-19-886520-9
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wasserman, Ryan

Fachgebiete

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

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).