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Tachyons, Backwards Causation, and Freedom

PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 1970
‘Tachyons’ are hypothetical faster-than-light particles. Their existence has been suspected and sought, on the ground that they appear to be compatible with the laws of nature, particularly with Special Relativity, and so there is at least some likelihood that they exist.
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Backward Causation and the Stalnaker-Lewis Approach to Counterfactuals

Analysis, 2002
Whether backward causation is logically possible is a deeply controversial matter, and one on which, in the present paper, I shall take no stand. The question to be considered is what relation, if any, there is between the logical possibility of backward causation and a Stalnaker-Lewis-style account of the truth conditions of counterfactuals, and the ...
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Salmon, Statistics and Backwards Causation

PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 1978
Smokers are more likely to develop lung cancer than non-smokers. This statistical association gives us reason to suppose that smoking can cause lung cancer. But we would come to reject this supposition if we discovered that when family histories of lung cancer are taken into account smoking makes no further difference to the probability of lung cancer:
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Infinitive Perfect and Backward Causation

Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 1980
The present paper represents an attempt to explain the semantically deviant nature of causative constructions with present perfect effect sentences. As far as I known, such constructions have not been commented upon in the literature on causativity.
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Backward Causation in Defence of Free Will

Mind, 1985
In 'The Incompatibility of Free Will and Determinism' Van Inwagen2 relies on the impossibility of someone's rendering false a proposition concerning a state of affairs that obtained before that person's birth. This suggests that those who wish to defend Compatibilism should seriously consider the possibility of affecting the past.
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Magicians, Alarm Clocks, and Backward Causation

Southern Journal of Philosophy, 1973
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The Memory Criterion and the Problem of Backward Causation

International Philosophical Quarterly, 2007
Lockeans, as well as their critics, have pointed out that the memory criterion is likely to mean that none of us were ever fetuses or even infants due to the lack of direct psychological connections between then and now. But what has been overlooked is that the memory criterion leads to either backward causation and a violation of Locke's own very ...
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A Defense of Backwards in Time Causation Models in Quantum Mechanics

Synthese, 1997
This paper offers a defense of backwards in time causation models in quantum mechanics. Particular attention is given to Cramer's transactional account, which is shown to have the threefold virtue of solving the Bell problem, explaining the complex conjugate aspect of the quantum mechanical formalism, and explaining various quantum mysteries such as ...
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Newcomb's Paradox Realized with Backward Causation

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 1998
In order to refute the widely held belief that the game known as 'Newcomb's paradox' is physically nonsensical and impossible to imagine (e.g. because it involves backward causation), I tell a story in which the game is realized in a classical, deterministic universe in a physically plausible way.
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Backwards Causation, Time, and the Open Future

Metaphysica, 2008
Here are some intuitions we have about the nature of space and time. There is something fundamentally different about the past, present, and future. What is definitive of the past is that the past events are fixed. What is definitive of the future is that future events are not fixed.
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