Open AccessIS SOME BACKWARDS TIME TRAVEL INEXPLICABLE?
Author(s) -
Kristie Miller
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
american philosophical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.49
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 2152-1123
pISSN - 0003-0481
DOI - 10.2307/44982131
Subject(s) - time travel , travel time , epistemology , philosophy , sociology , computer science , artificial intelligence , transport engineering , engineering
It has been suggested that there is something worrisome, puzzling, or incomprehensible about the sorts of causal loops sometimes involved in backwards time travel. This paper disentangles two distinct puzzles and evaluates whether they provide us reason to find backwards time travel incomprehensible, inexplicable, or otherwise worrisome. The paper argues that they provide no such reason.
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