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Causal counterfactuals without miracles or backtracking.

If the laws are deterministic, then standard theories of counterfactuals are forced to reject at least one of the following conditionals: 1) had you chosen differently, there would not have been a violation of the laws of nature; and 2) had you chosen differently, the initial conditions of the unive...

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Published in:Philosophy & Phenomenological Research Vol. 107; no. 2; pp. 439 - 470
Main Author: Gallow, J. Dmitri
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Sep2023
Subjects:
Counterfactuals (Logic)
Physical laws
Jurisprudence
Semantics
Decision theory
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