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Analysis, 2003
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Paul Noordhof
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Backwards Time Travel and Backwards Causation
Communications in Humanities Research, 2023Is it possible to travel back in time? Objections against backwards time travel frequently focus on the impossibility of changing the past. However, there is a deeper problem for backwards time travel. It seems that if backwards time travel were possible, the time traveler could causally affect the past, even if she could not alter the past.
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Thought, 2015
David Lewis famously defends a counterfactual theory of causation and a non-causal, similarity-based theory of counterfactuals. Lewis also famously defends the possibility of backward causation. I argue that this combination of views is untenable—given the possibility of backward causation, one ought to reject Lewis’s theories of causation and ...
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David Lewis famously defends a counterfactual theory of causation and a non-causal, similarity-based theory of counterfactuals. Lewis also famously defends the possibility of backward causation. I argue that this combination of views is untenable—given the possibility of backward causation, one ought to reject Lewis’s theories of causation and ...
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THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF BACKWARDS CAUSATION
The Philosophical Quarterly, 2007Dummett and others have failed to show that an effect can precede its cause. Dummett claimed that 'backwards causation' is unproblematic in agentless worlds, and tried to show under what conditions it is rational to believe that even backwards agent-causation occurs.
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Is There Backward Causation in Classical Electrodynamics?
The Journal of Philosophy, 1977Adolf Grünbaum
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Backwards causation and the permanence of the past
Synthese, 1990Can a present or future event bring about a past event? An answer to this question is demanded by many other interesting questions. Can anybody, even a god, do anything about what has already occurred? Should we plan for the past, as well as for the future? Can anybody precognise the future in a way quite different from normal prediction? Do the causal
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2017
Orthodox Quantum Mechanics is based on the idea that a physically described state of the universe exists at an instant of time over all of three-dimensional space, and advances, event by event, into an indeterminate future, leaving behind a fixed and settled sequence of past states.
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Orthodox Quantum Mechanics is based on the idea that a physically described state of the universe exists at an instant of time over all of three-dimensional space, and advances, event by event, into an indeterminate future, leaving behind a fixed and settled sequence of past states.
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Max Black and backwards causation
2020In this discussion I point out that Max Black offers not one but two arguments against the (logical/metaphysical) possibility of backwards causation. Although both arguments fail in their intended aim, they show something of importance, viz., that defenders of backwards causation should understand Black’s Houdini example (and others like it) in terms ...
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