Paradoxes of Time Travel

ISBN-13: 9780198865209 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 272 str.

Ryan Wasserman (WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVE

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Wasserman's book is a comprehensive overview and survey of the literature on time travel... the book will prove to be useful both for people willing to approach this topic for the first time and for more advanced scholars... Throughout all the book, the arguments are always well laid out, and each assumption is clearly highlighted... an excellent read.

O autorze

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