Paradoxes of time travel

Author(s)

• Wasserman, Ryan

Bibliographic Information

Paradoxes of time travel

Ryan Wasserman

Oxford University Press, 2020, c2018

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-242) and index

Originally published: 2018

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

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

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Details

• NCID: BC04468396
• ISBN:
  • 9780198865209
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: x, 250 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BD632
  • LCC : QC173.59.S65
  • DC23 : 115
  • DC23 : 530.11
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Space and time
  • LCSH : Time travel
  • LCSH : Time travel in mass media