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Johnny SAKR ABSTRACT: This paper advances a conditional rationalist argument against the metaphysical possibility of backward time travel. It proceeds from the assumption, accepted by some but not all modal rationalists, that metaphysical possibility is constrained by intelligibility, where intelligibility requires non-circular explanation and justification. Under this assumption, worlds that violate either the Strong Principle of Sufficient Reason (Strong-PSR) or …

Thomas HALL ABSTRACT: In this paper I defend the compossibility of presentism and time travel from two objections. One objection is that the presentist’s model of time leaves nowhere to travel to; the second objection attempts to equate presentist time travel with suicide. After targeting some misplaced scrutiny of the first objection, I show that presentists have the resources to account …