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On Backwards Causation

On Backwards Causation

Brian Garrett, “On Backwards Causation,” Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 77, no. 4 (2021): 1209–12, https://doi.org/10.17990/RPF/2021_77_4_1209.

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  • On Backwards Causation

    Type Journal Article
    Author Brian Garrett
    Rights © 2021 by Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia
    Volume 77
    Issue 4
    Pages 1209-1212
    Publication Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia
    ISSN 0870-5283
    Date 2021
    DOI 10.17990/RPF/2021_77_4_1209
    Language English
    Abstract In our world we never observe an effect which is earlier than its cause. All of our experience is of future-directed (or perhaps simultaneous) causation. But many have thought that backwards causation is at least logically or metaphysically possible. Max Black (1956) famously argued against this thought. I think his argument fails, but it’s still instructive. The correct rejoinder to Black teaches us what backwards causation must be like in a world of free agents, and implies that we can never have reason to bring about past events (in a world with backwards causal chains).
    Date Added 1/31/2022, 10:52:05 PM
    Modified 1/31/2022, 11:31:48 PM

    Tags:

    • backwards causation, causality, Max Black, metaphysics, time.

    Notes:

    • Black, Max. “Why Cannot an Effect Precede Its Cause?” Analysis 16.3 (1956): 49–58.
      Dummett, Michael. “Bringing about the Past”. The Philosophical Review 73 (1964): 338–59.
      Garrett, Brian. “Max Black and Backwards Causation”. Argumenta 1–5 (2021). doi:10.14275/2465-2334/20200.gar

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