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The paradoxes of time travel / Ryan Wasserman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wasserman, Ryan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Space and time.
- Time travel.
- Time travel in mass media.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 250 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Temporal paradoxes
- Paradoxes of freedom I
- Paradoxes of freedom II
- Causal paradoxes
- Paradoxes of identity.
- Notes:
- This edition previously issued in print: 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-251182-3
- 0-19-184198-6
- 0-19-251181-5
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