TIME MACHINES
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Philosophers struggle too

By far a complete account. Just a demonstration that philosophers noticed the problem.

Also, a few reviews on time travel in literature.

=========== 1999 ============================

[Phil]
Chambers T
Discussion - Time travel: How not to defuse the principal paradox
Ratio-New Series. 12(3): 296-301, 1999 Sep

[Phil]
Grey W
Troubles with time travel
Philosophy. 74(287): 55-70, 1999 Jan

=========== 1998 ============================

[Phil]
Smith NJJ.
The problems of backward time travel
Endeavour. 22(4):156-158, 1998.
[a philosopher's account]

=========== 1997 ============================

[Phil]
Adams RM
Thisness and time travel
Philosophia. 25(1-4): 407-415, 1997 Apr.

[Lit]
Hamburger S
Time machines - the best time travel stories ever written - Adler,b
Library Journal. 122(19): 79, 1997 Nov 15.

[Phil]
Riggs PJ
The principal paradox of time travel
Ratio-New Series. 10(1): 48-64, 1997 Apr.

[phil]
Smith NJJ
Bananas enough for time travel
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 48(3): 363-389, 1997 Sep.

=========== 1995 ============================

[Lit]
Slusser G and Chatelain D
Spacetime geometries, time travel and the modern geometrical narrative
Science-Fiction Studies. 22(Part 2): 161-186, 1995 Jul.

=========== 1994 ============================

[Lit]
Morris R
The perils of time travel
Futurist. 28(5): 60, 1994 Sep-Oct.

=========== 1990 and before ============================

[Phil]
Lewis D
The paradoxes of time travel
Am. Phil. Quaterly 13 (2) 1976 Apr
[Grandfather paradox considered by a philosopher; often cited paper]

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