CAN I KILL MY YOUNGER SELF? TIME TRAVEL AND THE RETROSUICIDE PARADOX.

If (backward) time travel is possible, presumably so is my shooting my younger self (YS); then apparently I can kill him – I can commit retrosuicide. But if I were to kill him I would not exist to shoot him, so how can I kill him? The standard solution to this paradox understands ability as compossi...

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Published in:	Pacific Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 90; no. 4; pp. 520 - 535
Main Author:	VRANAS, PETER B. M.
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Dec2009
Subjects:	Time travel Spacetime Imaginary voyages Science fiction Paradox
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