Time Travel
- First published:
- 21st century
- Language: English
- Content type: Fiction
Philosophy of time travel is a fast-growing branch of philosophy, encompassing issues from metaphysics and epistemology through to the philosophy of science and philosophy of action. This Special Issue of Philosophies offers eight original contributions to the philosophy of time travel from expert practitioners in the field. Topics covered include causal loops, Grandfather Paradoxes, the dimensionality of time, attitudes to different times, foreknowledge, and the possibility of changing the past.
Provenance
Why this book is in the catalog
Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics and Prophecy, oracles, and revelation.
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- “Prophecies”· in subject
Retained metadata contains “Metaphysics” in the description.
- “Metaphysics”· in description
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| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Directory of Open Access Books edition | 2022 | — | English | — | Open access |
Subjects
- Philosophy
- Time travel
- Miracles
- n/a
- Coincidence
- Freedom
- Ability
- Causation
- Teleportation
- Foreknowledge
- fatalism
- fixing
- fixity
- future-bias
- grandfather paradox
- growing block theory
- hypertime
- inexplicability
- loewer
- logical possibility
- Newcomb Problem
- non-Ludovician
- otherwising
- overdetermination
- personal fission
- personal identity
- possible worlds
- present
- presentism
- reverse causation
- self-fulfilling prophecies
- temporal preferences
- truth in fiction
- annulling
- autoinfanticide
- causal asymmetry
- causal loops
- changing
- counterfactual dependence
- counterfactuals
Identifiers & provenance
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Identifiers
- DOAB
- 20.500.12854/93820
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- Catalog id
- doab:20.500.12854/93820
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