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Backwards Causation and the Direction of Causal Processes

Mind, 1996
Although Hans Reichenbach would not have accepted the thesis presented here, this paper is in several ways inspired by his philosophy, and in particular by his book The Direction of Time (Reichenbach 1956). Firstly, this paper addresses an important metaphysical question the significance of which Reichenbach was the first to appreciate, namely, what ...
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Backwards Causation and Continuing¹

Mind, 1974
Though much attention has been given in recent years2 to the topic of backwards causation, little if any has been paid to the concept of temporal continuing, which I hope to show is not only relevant to that topic but decisive for its concludings. Michael Dummiett, indeed, in his fascinating 1954 paper showed himself aware that 'backwards causation ...
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Defending Backwards Causation¹

Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 1992
Whether we’re reading H.G. Wells, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, or Kurt Vonnegut, time travel is a wonderful narrative trick, freeing a story from the normal ‘one damn thing after another’ progression of time. But many philosophers claim it can never be more than that because backwards causation in general, and time travel in particular, are logically
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Backward Causation, Isolation and The Pursuit of Justice

Epistemologia. Rivista italiana di filosofia della scienza
The recent operationalization of the famous Newcomb's game by Schmidt (1998) offers an interesting and thought-provoking look at the plausibility of backward causation in a Newtonian universe. Hereby we investigate two details of the Schmidt's scenario which may, at least in principle, invalidate his conclusion in two different domains: one dealing ...
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Backwards Causation

Analysis, 1981
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Max Black and Backward Causation

2021
Brian Garrett, Jeremiah Joven Joaquin
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Backwards Causation and Max Black's Abominable Conjunction

Think
AbstractPhilosophers dispute whether an effect can be earlier than its cause (i.e. whether backwards causation can occur). For example, could a trainwreck cause a psychic to have earlier knowledge of it? Max Black tried to show backwards causation to be impossible but he failed to do so, or so I will argue.
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The Possibility of Backwards Causation

Danish Yearbook of Philosophy, 1984
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Max Black and Backward Causation

Synthese Library, 2022
Jeremiah Joven Joaquin, Brian Garrett, Joven Joaquin Jeremiah   +2 more
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A Troublesome Case of Backward Causation for Lewis’s Counterfactual Theory

Analytic Philosophy, 2021
George Seli
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