Travelling in Branching Time

Disputatio 4 (31):59-75 (2011)
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Miller (2005) and Miller (2008) argue that the branching picture of time is incompatible with the possibility of backwards time travel. In this paper I show that Miller’s conclusion is based on a hidden assumption which, while generally plausible, is unwarranted if time travel is possible. Branching time is, after all, compatible with time travel as Miller characterises it.

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10.2478/disp-2011-0013

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Manolo Martínez
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