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    Endurantism can account for time travel — Carmelics
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    Endurantism can account for time travel

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    • Endurantist resources are sufficient to handle time travel scenarios
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    • 1.Time travel requires a traveler to exist at the same time twice, creating two simultaneous personal histories at a single moment.
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    • 2.Endurantism holds that a person is wholly present at each moment, leaving no theoretical resource to distinguish the 'earlier' from the 'later' self co-present at that moment.
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    • 3.Without distinguishing these co-present selves, endurantism cannot coherently represent the causal structure of the time traveler's personal history, as Lewis's 1976 analysis requires.
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    • 1.Endurantist accounts of persistence rely on relations to times, but time travel generates a branching external time versus personal time distinction that undermines standard relational strategies.
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    • 2.Sider (2001) argues that any endurantist attempt to relativize properties to times collapses under scenarios where a single enduring entity occupies non-linear temporal paths, producing contradictory intrinsic property attributions with no coherent resolution.
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    SEP: temporal-parts
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    Suggested Reading: Earlier discussions of temporal parts paid close attention to analogies and disanalogies between space and time: e.g. Taylor (1955), Meiland (1966); Butterfield (1985) reflects on these. Lombard (1999) and Brogaard (2000) argue that presentism is compatible with perdurantism, while Merricks (1995) and Hestevold and Carter (2002) argue that presentism compels endurantism. Benovsky (2009) takes an even-handed approach. Merricks (1995) and Hinchliff (1996) argue that eternalism r
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