Paradoxes of Time Travel

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Paradoxes of Time Travel

Author	: Ryan Wasserman
File Size	: 42,6 Mb
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 08 May 2024
ISBN	: 9780198793335
Pages	: 261 pages

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Paradoxes of Time Travel by Ryan Wasserman Book PDF Summary

Ryan Wasserman explores a range of fascinating puzzles raised by the possibility of time travel, with entertaining examples from physics, science fiction, and popular culture, and he 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 by Ryan Wasserman

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