Paradoksy podróży w czasie: (tł. Marcin Iwanicki, Joanna Klara Teske)

David Lewis; Marcin Iwanicki; Joanna Klara Teske

doi:10.18290/rf23711.27

Published : 2023-03-31

Vol. 71 No. 1 (2023)

The Paradoxes of Time Travel

David Lewis

Marcin Iwanicki

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3904-0291

Joanna Klara Teske

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3651-595X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rf23711.27

(trans. Marcin Iwanicki, Joanna Klara Teske)

Abstract

The original: ”The Paradoxes of Time Travel”. American Philosophical Quarterly 13 (1976): 145–152. Translation with the Publisher's permission.

This paper argues that time travel is possible, and that the paradoxes of time travel are oddities, not impossibilities. The defense of the possibility of time travel involves a commitment to (a) enduring things having temporal as well as spatial parts, (b) psychological continuity and connectedness and causal continuity as criteria of personal identity, and (c) a distinction between external and personal time.

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backward causation, paradox of time travel, personal identity, temporal parts, time, time travel

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David Lewis

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David Lewis (1941–2001) was an American philosopher who is widely regarded as one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. Lewis taught briefly at UCLA and then, from 1970 until his death, at Princeton University.

Marcin Iwanicki

miwanick@gmail.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3904-0291

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John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin Poland

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Marcin Iwanicki, PhD — The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of the History of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy.

Joanna Klara Teske

jteske@kul.pl
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3651-595X

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John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin Poland

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Dr. habil. Joanna Klara Teske, Associate Professor at KUL — The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Literary Studies, Department of English Literature and Culture.