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Ways to Commit Autoinfanticide

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2016

JOHN W. CARROLL
JOHN W. CARROLL*
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NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITYcarroll@ncsu.edu
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Abstract:

Is it possible for Suzy to travel back in time and kill her infant self? Vihvelin (1996) and Vranas (2009) hold that autoinfanticide is logically/metaphysically possible but physically impossible. Horacek (2005) believes that autoinfanticide has a nonzero chance of occurring and so is physically possible, but believes that autoinfanticide is metaphysically impossible. To sort out these issues, I describe six ways to commit autoinfanticide; for all six, there is a case to be made for their physical and metaphysical possibility.

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time travelpossibilitychanceparadox

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Journal of the American Philosophical Association , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , Spring 2016 , pp. 180 - 191
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