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About Times: Some Reflections and Resonances Prompted by Reading a Draft Paper by David Zeitlyn

 

Abstract

Responding to David Zeitlyn's introduction, the paper considers implications of different conceptions or gamuts of time. Flows and connections between pasts and futures are considered in the light of Huw Price's work on the philosophy of time and by thinking seriously about how science fiction writers have considered the paradoxes of time travel.

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Notes

[1] Other examples include Time travel (e.g. HG Wells,The Time Machine [1895] Citation2005, Robert Heinlein, “—All You Zombies—” [1959] Citation1999), Immortality or enhanced longevity (e.g. Mary Shelley, “The Mortal Immortal” (Citation1990), Robert Silverberg, Sailing to Byzantium (Citation2006)), Reverse time (e.g. PK Dick, Counter-Clock World (Citation1968), Ubik (Citation1970); Kurt Vonnegut, Timescape (Citation1997)).

[2] Readers can find more about Clive Wearing in the following web links. The first is an extended TV documentary, the second a briefer clip from that which shows his joy at each reappearance of his wife. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwigmktix2Ye: Clive Wearing http://americablog.com/2013/09/interview-man-short-term-memory-video

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