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Paradoxes of Time Travel

Ryan Wasserman author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:30th Nov '17

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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.

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 *

ISBN: 9780198793335

Dimensions: 242mm x 164mm x 23mm

Weight: 556g

272 pages