Constraints on Data in Worlds with Closed Timelike Curves.

It is claimed that unacceptable constraints on initial data are imposed by certain responses to paradoxes that threaten time travel, closed timelike curves (CTCs) and other backwards causation hypotheses. In this paper I argue against the following claims: to say "contradictions are impossible so so...

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Publicado en:Philosophy of Science Vol. 74; no. 5; pp. 724 - 736
Autor principal: Dowe, Phil
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Publicado: Cambridge University Press Dec2007
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