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Does Lewis’ Theory of Causation Permit Time Travel?

Philosophies, 2021
David Lewis aimed to give an account of causation, and in particular, a semantics for the counterfactuals to which his account appeals, that is compatible with backwards causation and time travel. I will argue that he failed, but not for the reasons that
Phil Dowe
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The Coincidences of Time Travel [PDF]

Philosophy of Science, 2003
In this paper I consider two objections raised by Nick Smith (1997) to an argument against the probability of time travel given by Paul Horwich (1995, 1987). Horwich argues that time travel leads to inexplicable and improbable coincidences. I argue that one of Smith's objections fails, but that another is correct.
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Time-travelling the time-travel in(to) heat

Berliner Blätter
This paper is an exploration into future imaginaries of heat. In May 2022, Elisabeth and Jorge, the authors of the paper, met Juli, a heat researcher, who invited them into a time travel to a future world where and when heat is at the core of public life.
Luggauer, Elisabeth, Terreros, Jorge Martín Sainz des los   +1 more
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Taoist Philosophy in Chinese Science Fiction: A Comparison between Zhuangzi and Broken Stars

Lensa: Kajian Kebahasaan, Kesusastraan, dan Budaya, 2021
Chinese science fiction has been attaining global visibility since Liu Cixin’s trilogy entitled Remembrance of Earth’s Past. The trilogy’s English translator Liu Yukun has edited and rendered a science-fiction anthology that comprises sixteen novellas ...
Aiqing Wang
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Time Travel and theories of Time [PDF]

, 2000
This paper is a survey of the theories of time travel in a perspective close to theories of time. In the last section we discuss the special ontology of the objects that exist on closed timelike curves.
Muntean, Ioan Lucian
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Time Travel and the Reality of Spontaneity [PDF]

, 2005
Contrary to the informed consensus, time travel implies spontaneity (as distinct from chance) so that time travel can only be of the second ...
Raju, C. K.
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Time Travelers (and Everyone Else) Cannot Do Otherwise

Philosophies
Many defenders of the possibility of time travel into the past also hold that such time travel places no restrictions on what said time travelers can do. Some hold that it places at least a few restrictions on what time travelers can do. In attempting to
G. C. Goddu
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Urban travel time

Papers of the Regional Science Association, 1971
THIS PAPER UTILIZES THE CONCEPT OF URBAN VELOCITY FIELDS TO DERIVE A RELATIVELY SIMPLE PROCEDURE FOR OBTAINING GOOD ESTIMATES OF TRAVEL TIMES BETWEEN DIFFERENT LOCATIONS IN URBAN AREAS. THE PROCEDURE DOES NOT MAKE USE OF ANY SHORTEST ROUTE ALGORITHMS BASED ON A NETWORK VIEW OF THE URBAN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM.
Shlomo Angel, Geoffrey M. Hyman
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Lewis and the Price of Time Travel: Lessons from Großvater [PDF]

Organon F
Responding to Lewis’s (1976) defense of the consistency of time travel (TT), Horwich (1987) and Price (1996) claim that TT may nevertheless be shown to be improbable, due to its need for unlikely coincidences.
Huw Price
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Czechosłowackie podróże w czasie – od filmowej lekcji przyrody do normalizacyjnej zwariowanej komedii

Images, 2021
Czechoslovakian film fantasy has its own canon comprised of various works, the successes of which were recorded by press industries around the world. They picked up various threads, but the most interesting one seems to be the theme of time travel,
Mariusz Guzek
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