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Metaphysics asks questions about existence: for example, do numbers
really exist? Metametaphysics asks questions about metaphysics: for
example, do its questions have determinate answers? If so, are
these answers deep and important, or are they merely a matter of
how we use words? What is the proper methodology for their
resolution? These questions have received a heightened degree of
attention lately with new varieties of ontological deflationism and
pluralism challenging the kind of realism that has become orthodoxy
in contemporary analytic metaphysics.
Ryan Wasserman explores a range of fascinating questions raised by the possibility of time travel. This volume explores a wide-range of puzzles such as the grandfather paradox, the bootstrapping paradox, and the twin paradox of special relativity. Ryan Wasserman 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 is written in an accessible style, and filled with entertaining examples from physics, science fiction, and popular culture.
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.
Metaphysics asks questions about existence: for example, do numbers
really exist? Metametaphysics asks questions about metaphysics: for
example, do its questions have determinate answers? If so, are
these answers deep and important, or are they merely a matter of
how we use words? What is the proper methodology for their
resolution? These questions have received a heightened degree of
attention lately with new varieties of ontological deflationism and
pluralism challenging the kind of realism that has become orthodoxy
in contemporary analytic metaphysics.
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