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The end of mystery
Baron, Sam Colyvan, Mark
Baron, Sam
Colyvan, Mark
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Abstract
Tim travels back in time and tries to kill his grandfather before his father was born. Tim fails. But why? Lewis’s response was to cite “coincidences”: Tim is the unlucky subject of gun jammings, banana peels, sudden changes of heart, and so on. A number of challenges have been raised against Lewis’s response. The latest of these focuses on explanation. This paper diagnoses the source of this new disgruntlement and offers an alternative explanation for Tim’s failure, one that Lewis would not have liked. The explanation is an obvious one but controversial, so it is defended against all the objections that can be mustered.
Keywords
time, time travel, explanation, logic, paradox
Date
2019
Type
Journal article
Journal
American Philosophical Quarterly
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Volume
56
Issue
3
Page Range
247-264
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Dianoia Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Theology and Philosophy
Faculty of Theology and Philosophy
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Published as green open access
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