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

Brian Garrett

doi:10.1007/s12136-019-00387-z

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

Brian Garrett^*

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In this discussion piece, I argue that David Lewis fails to support his claim that (relative to one context) 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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	177-180
Number of pages	4
Journal	Acta Analytica
Volume	34
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12136-019-00387-z
Publication status	Published - 15 Jun 2019

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