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dc.contributor.authorForrest, Peteren
local.source.editorEditor(s): Dean W Zimmermanen
dc.date.accessioned2010-09-17T15:00:00Z-
dc.date.issued2010-
dc.identifier.citationOxford Studies in Metaphysics, v.5, p. 29-39en
dc.identifier.isbn9780199575794en
dc.identifier.isbn9780199575787en
dc.identifier.isbn9780191573507en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/6546-
dc.description.abstractIf physicists send a particle or two back in time, I fear they will make snide remarks about philosophers in their armchairs claiming to know 'a priori' that this is impossible. Peter van Inwagen's account (in this volume) of 'non-Ludovician time-travel', hereafter referred to as 'VIT travel', should forestall that criticism by providing an interpretation of what the physicists will have done, and why, if his interpretation is correct, it is irresponsible. It might seem, therefore, to be quibbling for me to argue that VIT travel should be redescribed as a variant on the branching time hypothesis, according to which "time-travellers" cause there to be a new branch of time (or more accurately a new branch of 4-space) when they get out of their machines. In this chapter I first explain why this is not a mere quibble. Then I argue for the redescription thesis. Finally I anticipate objections.en
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dc.publisherOxford University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofOxford Studies in Metaphysicsen
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dc.titleCan a Soufflé Rise Twice? Van Inwagen's Irresponsible Time-Travelersen
dc.typeBook Chapteren
dc.subject.keywordsMetaphysicsen
local.contributor.firstnamePeteren
local.subject.for2008220309 Metaphysicsen
local.subject.seo2008970122 Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studiesen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.emailpforrest@une.edu.auen
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local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordune-20100122-092224en
local.publisher.placeOxford, United Kingdomen
local.identifier.totalchapters14en
local.format.startpage29en
local.format.endpage39en
local.identifier.volume5en
local.contributor.lastnameForresten
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local.title.maintitleCan a Soufflé Rise Twice? Van Inwagen's Irresponsible Time-Travelersen
local.output.categorydescriptionB1 Chapter in a Scholarly Booken
local.relation.urlhttp://books.google.com/books?id=iE65ulffu2oC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA29en
local.search.authorForrest, Peteren
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local.year.published2010en
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