Yet Another Confusion About Time Travel.

I argue that, contrary to an idea to be found in popularizations of time travel, one cannot more easily multiply oneself by taking younger versions of oneself back in time than by travelling back in time on one's own. The reason is that the suggested multiplication of the traveller is, from a global...

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Publicado en:Disputatio: International Journal of Philosophy Vol. 5; no. 35; pp. 49 - 57
Autor principal: Torrengo, Giuliano
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Publicado: Paradigm Publishing Services 2013
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