The case for time travel

Philosophy 75 (3):441-451 (2000)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

This idea of time travel has long given philosophers difficulties. Most recently, in his paper ‘Troubles with Time Travel’ William Grey presents a number of objections to time travel, some well known in the philosophical literature, others quite novel. In particular Grey's ‘no destinations’ and ‘double occupation’ objections I take to be original, while what I will call the ‘times paradox’ and the ‘possibility restriction argument’ are versions of well known objections. I show how each of these can be answered, thereby defending the plausibility of time travel.

Other Versions

No versions found

Similar books and articles

The coincidences of time travel.Phil Dowe - 2003 - Philosophy of Science 70 (3):574-589.
Troubles with time travel.William Grey - 1999 - Philosophy 74 (1):55-70.
Time travel: Double your fun.Frank Arntzenius - 2006 - Philosophy Compass 1 (6):599–616.
Causal Loops in Time Travel.Nicolae Sfetcu - 2019 - Bucharest, Romania: MultiMedia Publishing.
Time Travel and Collisions.Cei Maslen - 2023 - Metaphysica 24 (2):407-419.
Grandfather’s Murder.Brian Garrett - 2025 - Think 24 (70):39-41.

Analytics

Added to PP
2009-01-28

Downloads
612 (#93,067)

6 months
30 (#299,398)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Phil Dowe
Australian National University

Citations of this work

Time Travel and the Open Future.Kristie Miller - 2005 - Disputatio 1 (19):223 - 232.
What Time Travel Teaches Us about Moral Responsibility.Taylor Cyr & Neal Tognazzini - 2024 - Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 26 (3).
Nowhere Man: Time Travel and Spatial Location.Sara Bernstein - 2015 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 39 (1):158-168.
Paradoxes and Hypodoxes of Time Travel.Peter Eldridge-Smith - 2007 - In Jan Lloyd Jones, Art and Time. Australian Scholarly Publishing. pp. 172--189.

View all 28 citations / Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references