Ethical Puzzles of Time Travel

In Andrei Marmor (ed.), Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Law. Routledge (2012)
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Abstract

This paper is dedicated to articulating the ethical puzzles that arise from the possibility of time travel. I divide the puzzles into three different categories: permissibility puzzles, obligation puzzles, and conflicts between past and future selves. In each category, I suggest that ethical problems involving time travel are not as dissimilar to parallel “normal” ethical puzzles as one might think.

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