Terminator and Philosophy: I'll Be Back, Therefore I Am by Richard Brown & William Irwin & Kevin S. Decker

Author:Richard Brown & William Irwin & Kevin S. Decker [Brown, Richard & Irwin, William & Decker, Kevin S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0470447982
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2009-05-13T05:00:00+00:00

Surprisingly, though, whichever is our preferred model—the two open-future models or the fixed-future model of eternalism—it turns out that we are not mere puppets of fate. What we have done in the past and are doing in the present shapes the way the future will be. Fixed or not, the future is the product of all that has come before it. Kyle Reese is right, then: it is ultimately we who make our own futures.

NOTES

1 For a good discussion of this issue see David Lewis, “The Paradoxes of Time Travel,” American Philosophical Quarterly 13 (1976): 145-152.

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