Time Travel and the Nature of Time by Eve Green
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Title
Time Travel and the Nature of Time by Eve Green
Subject
Philosophy
Description
Backward time travel is something most people in modern society are familiar with through the presence of this form of time travel in popular culture. This paper explores the nature of backward time travel as a philosophical possibility, and investigates how this time travel functions within time different time theories. Through understanding which time theory best allows for the philosophical possibility of backward time travel, this paper also considers the impacts of this theory of time on the nature of free will, and consequently how free will functions within backward time travel. Through exploring the theories of presentism, the growing universe theory, the dropping branches theory, and eternalism, and investigating the solutions to multiple time travel paradoxes, this paper identifies the fatalistic nature of backward time travel as a philosophical possibility, and the consequent lack of free will present in a theory of time that allows for this philosophical possibility. Through exploration of time theory and the philosophical possibility of backward time travel, this paper concludes that eternalism is the time theory most compatible with this form of time travel and additionally that backward time travel does not allow for free will. This paper does not attempt to argue for the necessity of the philosophical possibility of backward time travel nor does it argue that eternalism must be true if society does not necessitate the philosophical possibility of backward time travel.
Creator
Eve Green
Source
Senior Showcase Oral presentation
Publisher
Ripon College
Date
April 17, 2018
Rights
The author reserves all rights.
Format
pdf
Identifier
Majors: English; Philosophy; Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies
Lane Cove, Australia
Lane Cove, Australia
Philosophy Senior Seminar
Collection
Citation
Eve Green, “Time Travel and the Nature of Time by Eve Green,” Senior Showcase Digital Collection, accessed April 26, 2024, https://rcseniorshowcase.omeka.net/items/show/95.