IN DEFENSE OF THE COMPOSSIBILITY OF PRESENTISM AND TIME TRAVEL.
In this paper I defend the compossibility of presentism and time travel from two objections. One objection is that the presentist's model of time leaves nowhere to travel to; the second objection attempts to equate presentist time travel with suicide. After targeting some misplaced scrutiny of the f...
| Publicado en: | Logos & Episteme Vol. 5; no. 2; pp. 141 - 160 |
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Logos & Episteme
2014
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