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FATALISM: A DIALOGUE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2018

Brian Garrett
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Abstract

In this dialogue I discuss the connection between eternalism (the view that past, present and future are equally real) and fatalism. I do not think, as some do, that eternalism implies fatalism, but I do think that eternalists can avoid fatalism only by denying a seemingly intuitive claim about what a traveller to the past cannot do.

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 17 , Issue 49 , Summer 2018 , pp. 73 - 79
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2018 

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References

Lewis, D. (1976) ‘The Paradoxes of Time Travel’, American Philosophical Quarterly 13.1: 145–52.Google Scholar