Defending Backwards Causation against the Objection from the Ignorance Condition
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Data de Publicação: | 2014 |
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Resumo: | Since Michel Dummett published “Can an effect precede its cause?” (1954), in which he argued for the logical consistency of backwards causation, the controversial concept has turned to a subject of all kinds of interpretations and misinterpretations. Some like Ben-yami, Peijnenburg and Gorovitz have wrongly ascribed to Dummett the view that the argument for the consistency of believing in backwards causation applies only in cases where the agent doesn’t know about the occurrence of the past effect. In this paper I defend Dummett’s argument by clearing up the confusion caused by ascribing the ignorance condition to Dummett. |
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Defending Backwards Causation against the Objection from the Ignorance ConditionCauseEffectBackwards causationIgnorance conditionLogical consistencySince Michel Dummett published “Can an effect precede its cause?” (1954), in which he argued for the logical consistency of backwards causation, the controversial concept has turned to a subject of all kinds of interpretations and misinterpretations. Some like Ben-yami, Peijnenburg and Gorovitz have wrongly ascribed to Dummett the view that the argument for the consistency of believing in backwards causation applies only in cases where the agent doesn’t know about the occurrence of the past effect. In this paper I defend Dummett’s argument by clearing up the confusion caused by ascribing the ignorance condition to Dummett.Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, Centro de FilosofiaRepositório da Universidade de LisboaHasan, Abla2016-11-02T10:36:31Z2014-112014-11-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/24956eng0873-626Xinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-08T16:14:13Zoai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/24956Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T21:42:00.621573Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Defending Backwards Causation against the Objection from the Ignorance Condition |
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Defending Backwards Causation against the Objection from the Ignorance Condition |
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Defending Backwards Causation against the Objection from the Ignorance Condition Hasan, Abla Cause Effect Backwards causation Ignorance condition Logical consistency |
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Defending Backwards Causation against the Objection from the Ignorance Condition |
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Defending Backwards Causation against the Objection from the Ignorance Condition |
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Defending Backwards Causation against the Objection from the Ignorance Condition |
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Defending Backwards Causation against the Objection from the Ignorance Condition |
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Defending Backwards Causation against the Objection from the Ignorance Condition |
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Hasan, Abla |
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Hasan, Abla |
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Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
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Hasan, Abla |
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Cause Effect Backwards causation Ignorance condition Logical consistency |
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Cause Effect Backwards causation Ignorance condition Logical consistency |
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Since Michel Dummett published “Can an effect precede its cause?” (1954), in which he argued for the logical consistency of backwards causation, the controversial concept has turned to a subject of all kinds of interpretations and misinterpretations. Some like Ben-yami, Peijnenburg and Gorovitz have wrongly ascribed to Dummett the view that the argument for the consistency of believing in backwards causation applies only in cases where the agent doesn’t know about the occurrence of the past effect. In this paper I defend Dummett’s argument by clearing up the confusion caused by ascribing the ignorance condition to Dummett. |
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