Time Travel and Self‐Consistency: Implications for Determinism and the Human Condition

Ratio 12 (3):271–278 (1999)
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In this paper I examine a recent scientific claim that travel into the past, so long as a ‘consistent’ trajectory is followed, may be possible. I then argue that the possibility of such travel has unexpected implications for the free will‐determinism debate. In particular, human existence may be, at best, determinate but uncaused.

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