Browsing Philosophy by Subject "Time travel"

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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, ...

    • 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 ...