The Future of the Present

Meyer, Ulrich

doi:10.1007/s10670-022-00540-y

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Logical Explanations For Disasters1

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“…[74][75][76][77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84][85] [158][159][160] (which is also the most popular explanation offered in fiction, at least when one is offered at all (e.g., [92,115,118,161,162])). Other non-Ludovicians do without extra universes, instead denying that the earlier-than relation is the converse of the later-than relation [163][164][165]. However, for reasons I have discussed elsewhere [3] (p. 1318), I will opt for a third alternative: non-Ludovician fictional worlds are best thought of as being 'hypertemporal'.…”

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The Close Possibility of Time Travel

Effingham

2023

Philosophies

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This article discusses the possibility of some outlandish tropes from time travel fiction, such as people reversing in age as they time travel or the universe being destroyed because a time traveler kills their ancestor. First, I discuss what type of possibility we might have in mind, detailing ‘close possibility’ as one such candidate. Secondly, I argue that—with only little exception—these more outlandish tropes fail to be closely possible. Thirdly, I discuss whether these outlandish tropes may nevertheless be more broadly possible (e.g., metaphysically or logically possible), arguing that whether they are or not depends upon your favored metaphysics of the laws of nature.

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