Stradis, Athamos
(2022)
Backward causation: harder than it looks.
[Preprint]
Abstract
According to Albert, there are certain situations where we can cause past events. In response to a well-known objection that we never observe backward causation, he argues that there are good reasons why we can’t tell when it obtains. However, I identify a new difficulty with Albert’s view: at face value, it has the unattractive consequence that backward causation is not just possible but downright rife. In this paper I show how this implication can be blocked. I then use my analysis to defend Albert’s account from a second well-known objection, namely that it allows us to control the past.
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