Defending backwards causation.

Examines the time travel paradoxes. P.C.W. Davies's self-detonating machine; D.H. Mellor's barbecuers; Rejection of claim that causality and the possibility of the requisite sort of agency are inseparable; Parallelism between arguments about time travel and free will and determinism; Two kinds of p...

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Published in:Canadian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 22; no. 4; pp. 429 - 444
Main Author: Brown, Bryson
Format: Article
Published: Cambridge University Press Dec92
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Summary:Examines the time travel paradoxes. P.C.W. Davies's self-detonating machine; D.H. Mellor's barbecuers; Rejection of claim that causality and the possibility of the requisite sort of agency are inseparable; Parallelism between arguments about time travel and free will and determinism; Two kinds of physical possibility.