Paradoxes of Time Travel

by Ryan Wasserman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198793332
• ISBN13: 9780198793335
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"