Back to the Unchanging Past.

The standard philosophical view of time travel has it that time travelers cannot change the past. It has been argued by some that the standard view is false, and that this can be shown using a two-dimensional model of time. I defend the standard view against this attack. I show, first, that the addi...

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Publicado en:Pacific Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 98; no. 1; pp. 129 - 148
Autor principal: Baron, Sam
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Mar2017
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