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Paradoxes of Time Travel

By Ryan Wasserman

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2018
ISBN
0198793332, 9780198793335
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3907932 bytes)
Pages
x+250\261
Time added
2018-05-15 21:15:56
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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.

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