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...
| Published in: | Canadian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 22; no. 4; pp. 429 - 444 |
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Cambridge University Press
Dec92
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| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |
| 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. |
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