Godelian time-travel and anthropic cosmology

This paper looks at Kurt Godel's causally-pathological cosmological models (derived from general relativity), in the light of anthropic explanations. If a Godelian world is a possible world, could anthropic reasoning shed any light on whether or not our world is Godelian? This paper argues that while there are some good anthropic reasons why our world ought to be Godelian, too many observations suggest that our world can't possibly be Godelian in fact. If Godel's world is a possible one, anthropic teleology alone cannot explain why it isn't the world we inhabit. Furthermore, if our world were Godelian, anthropic arguments against the existence of extraterrestrial intelligences would imply a bleak human future. En route, some general objections to relativistic causal pathologies are addressed and some anthropic arguments to the effect that Godelian worlds couldn't sustain life are also addressed and dismissed.