Paradoxes of Time Travel

Ryan Wasserman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2020
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-886520-9 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

1: Introduction
2: Temporal Paradoxes
3: Paradoxes of Freedom I
4: Paradoxes of Freedom II
5: Causal Paradoxes
6: Paradoxes of Identity

Erscheinungsdatum	25.09.2020
Zusatzinfo	66 b/w line illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	412 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Relativitätstheorie
ISBN-10	0-19-886520-1 / 0198865201
ISBN-13	978-0-19-886520-9 / 9780198865209
Zustand	Neuware