Hilbert's Inferno: Time Travel for the Damned Hilbert's Inferno: Time Travel for the Damned.
Combining time travel with certain kinds of supertask, this paper proposes a novel model for Hell. Temporally-closed spacetimes allow otherwise impossible opportunities for material kinds of damnation and reveal surprising limitations on metaphysical objections to Hell. Prima facie, eternal damnatio...
| Publicado en: | Ratio Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 233 - 250 |
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