Van Inwagen on Time Travel and Changing the Past

Abstract

Peter van Inwagen‟s (2009) discussion of time travel invokes both hypertime and the growing block theory to provide us with a model for changing the past that is both rigorous and ingenious.1 We are impressed. But we are not yet convinced. In this essay, we present three potential objections for van Inwagen‟s model (section 1), and then show how his model can be adapted to avoid those worries (sections 2-4).

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 35 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.