{"product_id":"time-travel-probability-and-impossibility-hardcover","title":"Time Travel: Probability and Impossibility - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNikk Effingham\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are various arguments for the metaphysical impossibility of time travel. Is it impossible because objects could then be in two places at once? Or is it impossible because some objects could bring about their own existence? In this book, Nikk Effingham contends that no such argument is\u003cbr\u003esound and that time travel is metaphysically possible. His main focus is on the Grandfather Paradox: the position that time travel is impossible because someone could not go back in time and kill their own grandfather before he met their grandmother. In such a case, Effingham argues that the time\u003cbr\u003etraveller would have the ability to do the impossible (so they \u003cem\u003ecould\u003c\/em\u003e kill their grandfather) even though those impossibilities will never come about (so they \u003cem\u003ewon't\u003c\/em\u003e kill their grandfather). He then explores the ramifications of this view, discussing issues in probability and decision theory. The book\u003cbr\u003eends by laying out the dangers of time travel and why, even though no time machines currently exist, we should pay extra special care ensuring that nothing, no matter how small or microscopic, ever travels in time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNikk Effingham, \u003cem\u003eUniversity of Birmingham\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNikk Effingham is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Birmingham. He received his doctorate from the University of Leeds and has previously worked at the University of Glasgow. His areas of research include metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of science. Other than time travel, he has also written papers on supersubstantivalism, composition, and perdurantism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.3 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 10, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42104341889159,"sku":"9780198842507","price":171.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/92169ffbf074325d77b05c48f372c8cb.webp?v=1732423197","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/time-travel-probability-and-impossibility-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}