Browsing Philosophy (Scholarly Publications) by Subject "Counterfactuals"

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    • Back to the Present: How Not to Use Counterfactuals to Explain Causal Asymmetry 

      Fernandes, Alison (2022)
      A plausible thought is that we should evaluate counterfactuals in the actual world by holding the present ‘fixed’; the state of the counterfactual world at the time of the antecedent, outside the area of the antecedent, ...

    • Freedom, Self-Prediction, and the Possibility of Time Travel 

      Fernandes, Alison (2020)
      Do time travellers retain their normal freedom and abilities when they travel back in time? Lewis, Horwich and Sider argue that they do. Time-travelling Tim can kill his young grandfather, his younger self, or whomever ...

    • Time Travel and Counterfactual Asymmetry 

      Fernandes, Alison (2021)
      We standardly evaluate counterfactuals and abilities in temporally asymmetric terms—by keeping the past fixed and holding the future open. Only future events depend counterfactually on what happens now. Past events do ...