Paradoxes of Time Travel by Ryan Wasserman (PDF)

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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 with entertaining examples from physics, science fiction, and popular culture.

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Editorial Reviews: Review “Wasserman’s book fills a gap in the academic literature on time travel. … as far as I know, this is the first book length work devoted to the topic of time travel by a metaphysician homed in on the most important metaphysical issues. Wasserman addresses these issues while still managing to include pertinent scientific discussion and enjoyable time-travel snippets from science fiction. The book is well organized and is suitable for good undergraduate metaphysics students, for philosophy graduate students, and for professional philosophers. It reads like a sophisticated and excellent textbook even though it includes many novel ideas.” — John W. Carroll, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews About the Author Ryan Wasserman is professor of philosophy at Western Washington University, and co-editor of Metametaphysics (OUP 2009).

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐The concept of this book is great and exciting, the execution is poor. Time travelling and the paradoxes we’ve grown to be puzzled and intrigued by are incredibly interesting. The philosophical equations of logic surrounding them are dull as dish water. This book represents the latter. I’d recommend this for a philosophy student who has watched ‘Dark’ on Netflix not someone with a general interest in the topic.

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