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
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost