“Backward time travel entails too many foiling coincidences, in order that the time traveller not change the past, to be plausible” Do you agree or disagree and why?

1. Introduction   In ‘The Paradoxes of Time Travel’ David Lewis (1976) argues that backward time travel is possible. However, it is not possible for a time traveller to change the past. This would lead to certain paradoxes, such as the Grandfather paradox. Were a person to kill their paternal grandfather before the birth of … Continue reading “Backward time travel entails too many foiling coincidences, in order that the time traveller not change the past, to be plausible” Do you agree or disagree and why?