Presentism, Non-presentism and the Possibility of Time Travel

In Juan Colomina (ed.), Temporal Points of View: Subjective and Objective Aspects. Springer. pp. 265-275 (2015)
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Abstract

This chapter argues for a notion of time that allows time travel. In order to time traveling to happen, in contrast to Presentism, the chapter demonstrates that we can change the past and we have some place where to travel. It shows the advantages of a non-presentist ontology that advocates for indeterminacy of future facts based not on its absence of truth-value, but on the overdetermination of future facts. The conclusion is that to break the causal chain is impossible in we are placed in the same causal line. But if we rethink the time traveling as a trans-world traveling, it is possible to open a new causal line anytime that someone travel in time, to the past as well as to the future.

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Juan Colomina-Alminana
University of Texas at Austin
David Pérez Chico
Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain)

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