{"id":2409,"date":"2011-09-13T17:33:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T16:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=2409"},"modified":"2011-09-13T19:31:22","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T18:31:22","slug":"time-travel-reading-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2011\/09\/time-travel-reading-material\/","title":{"rendered":"Time travel: reading material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am taking a metafysics class<a href=\"#sdfootnote1sym\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a> and last lectur&#8217;s topic was time travel. That is an issu i sort of like but i dislike the way people discuss it, in general. Ther is a widespred lack of clarity and lack of training in the relevant logics (that is, modal logics: alethic logic and temporal logic). A fine example of that is the first essay below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/John-M.-E.-Mctaggart-Time-Is-Not-Real-.pdf\">John M. E. Mctaggart &#8211; Time Is Not Real<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/David-Lewis-The-Paradoxes-Of-Time-Travel-.pdf\">David Lewis The Paradoxes Of Time Travel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The followup essay (2<sup>nd<\/sup> abov) is certainly better than the first but not quite clear enof to my taste. I do generally agree with Lewis tho. I advice people interested in the subject to lern alethic logic (S5) and read the following materials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfu.ca\/%7Eswartz\/time_travel1.htm\">http:\/\/www.sfu.ca\/~swartz\/time_travel1.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfu.ca\/%7Eswartz\/beyond_experience\/index.htm\">http:\/\/www.sfu.ca\/~swartz\/beyond_experience\/index.htm<\/a> Chapter 8.<\/p>\n<p>And for those who like fiction about time travel and wants to see som fiction with time travel that seems to be non-contradictory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Robert-A.-Heinlein-Time-enough-for-love_-the-lives-of-Lazarus-Long.pdf\">Robert A. Heinlein &#8211; Time enough for love_ the lives of Lazarus Long<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Robert-A.-Heinlein-All-You-Zombies.pdf\">Robert A. Heinlein &#8211; All You Zombies<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Notes<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"#sdfootnote1anc\">1<\/a>Well, \ttecnically, i signed up for it but never turned up so far. I blame \tthe timing. They put it at 0900, and even on the same day as another \tclass (filosofical logic) altho not the same time. But it still \timplys that if i want to attend both lectures, then i hav to spend a \tlot of time on the university in one day. But i disfeel like \tspending that much time, unless ther is alcohol involved. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am taking a metafysics class1 and last lectur&#8217;s topic was time travel. That is an issu i sort of like but i dislike the way people discuss it, in general. Ther is a widespred lack of clarity and lack of training in the relevant logics (that is, modal logics: alethic logic and temporal logic). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1457],"tags":[553,865,988,1622],"class_list":["post-2409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphysics","tag-impossible","tag-norman-swartz","tag-possible","tag-time-travel","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2420,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions\/2420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}