TIME TRAVEL, AGENCY, AND NOMIC CONSTRAINT.
The article explores conceptual problems associated with time travel concerning the nature of agency and nomological structure. The existence of such conceptual difficulties does not threaten the logical or physical possibility of time travel. The most rational stance to take regarding time travel m...
| Publicado en: | Monist Vol. 88; no. 3; pp. 396 - 413 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jul2005
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| Sumario: | The article explores conceptual problems associated with time travel concerning the nature of agency and nomological structure. The existence of such conceptual difficulties does not threaten the logical or physical possibility of time travel. The most rational stance to take regarding time travel may be one of epistemic humility, by which is meant a stance involving the admission that conceptual analysis may not constitute a methodology for understanding the physical nature of the world. |
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