Bulletproof Grandfathers, David Lewis, and ‘Can’t’-Judgements

Acta Analytica 34 (2):177-180 (2019)
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In this discussion piece, I argue that David Lewis fails to support his claim that time-travelling Tim cannot kill his Grandfather in 1921. This result, in turn, undermines Lewis’s contextualist solution to the Grandfather Paradox—i.e. conceding that Tim can and cannot kill Grandfather, but relative to different contexts in each case.

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