
Paradoxes of Time Travel
Ryan Wasserman(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 30. November 2017
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-19-879333-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
Wasserman's book fills a gap in the academic literature on time travel. ... as far as I know, this is the first book length work devoted to the topic of time travel by a metaphysician homed in on the most important metaphysical issues. Wasserman addresses these issues while still managing to include pertinent scientific discussion and enjoyable time-travel snippets from science fiction. The book is well organized and is suitable for good undergraduate metaphysics students, for philosophy graduate students, and for professional philosophers. It reads like a sophisticated and excellent textbook even though it includes many novel ideas. * John W. Carroll, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews * This is a good read. * Eric Kincanon, Kronoscope 23 *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
561 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-879333-5 (9780198793335)
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Paradoxes of Time Travel
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Person
Ryan Wasserman is professor of philosophy at Western Washington University, and co-editor of Metametaphysics (OUP 2009).
Content
1: Introduction
2: Temporal Paradoxes
3: Paradoxes of Freedom I
4: Paradoxes of Freedom II
5: Causal Paradoxes
6: Paradoxes of Identity
2: Temporal Paradoxes
3: Paradoxes of Freedom I
4: Paradoxes of Freedom II
5: Causal Paradoxes
6: Paradoxes of Identity