03 Paradoxes of Time Travel Oxford University by Unbekannt -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Paradoxes of Time Travel Contents Preface 1 Introduction

1. Time Travel 2. . . . And Not 3. Possibility 4. Paradoxes

2 Temporal Paradoxes

1. Two Debates in the Philosophy of Time

1.1 The ontology of time 1.2 The reality of tense

2. Eternalism and Time Travel 3. Presentism and Time Travel

3.1 The no destination argument 3.2 The definitional argument 3.3 The annihilation argument

4. The Growing Block and Time Travel 5. Special Relativity and Time Travel 6. General Relativity and Time Travel

3 Paradoxes of Freedom I

1. Stories of Self-Defeat 2. Rewriting History 3. The Branches of Time

3.1 The branching timeline model 3.2 The inconsistency objection 3.3 The immutability objection 3.4 The irrelevance objection

4. Traveling in Hypertime

4.1 The hypertime model 4.2 Three advantages to the hypertime model 4.3 Three objections to the hypertime model

5. The A-Model of Past-Alteration

4 Paradoxes of Freedom II

1. On Lewis’s Way Out

1.1 Clarifications 1.2 Applications 1.3 Reactions

2. Killing Baby Suzy

2.1 Vihvelin on retrosuicide 2.2 Vranas on retrosuicide 2.3 Sider on retrosuicide

3. The Problem with Banana Peels

3.1 Horwich on coincidences 3.2 Smith on fallacious reasoning 3.3 Smith on tomato rolls

4. Paradox without Freedom?

5 Causal Paradoxes

1. Preliminaries

1.1 Causal loops 1.2 Backward causation

2. The Bootstrapping Paradox 3. The Ex Nihilo Paradox 4. The Restoration Paradox 5. The Frequency Paradox 6. The Counterfactual Paradox

6.1 Lewis’s theory 6.2 Tooley’s argument 6.3 Tichý’s hat and Morgenbesser’s coin 6.4 A unified solution

6 Paradoxes of Identity

1. Two Puzzles about Sameness and Difference 2. Perdurantism and Self-Visitation

2.1 Perdurantism and persistence 2.2 Perdurantism, change, and self-visitation 2.3 The problem with temporal parts 2.4 The problem with person parts

3. Endurantism and Self-Visitation

3.1 Endurantism and persistence 3.2 Endurantism, change, and self-visitation 3.3 From relativism to compatibilism 3.4 Endurantism and indiscernibility

4. Mereology and Multi-Visitation

4.1 The identification account 4.2 The composition account 4.3 The constitution account 4.4 The elimination account

5. The Strange Tale of Adam the Atom

References Index