Browsing Philosophy by Author "Fernandes, Alison"
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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, ... -
Causation: Further Themes
Fernandes, Alison (Taylor and Francis, 2018) -
A deliberative account of causation: How the evidence of deliberating agents accounts for causation and its temporal direction
Fernandes, Alison (Columbia University, 2016)In my dissertation I develop and defend a deliberative account of causation: causal relations correspond to the evidential relations we use when we decide on one thing in order to achieve another. Tamsin’s taking her ... -
A Deliberative Approach to Causation
Fernandes, Alison (2017) -
Does the Temporal Asymmetry of Value Support a Tensed Metaphysics?
Fernandes, Alison (2019)There are temporal asymmetries in our attitudes towards the past and future. For example, we judge that a given amount of work is worth twice as much if it is described as taking place in the future, compared to the past ... -
Exploring people s beliefs about the experience of time
Fernandes, Alison (2021)Philosophical debates about the metaphysics of time typically revolve around two contrasting views of time. On the A-theory, time is something that itself undergoes change, as captured by the idea of the passage of time; ... -
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 ... -
How to Explain the Direction of Time
Fernandes, Alison (2022)Reichenbach explains temporally asymmetric phenomena by appeal to entropy and ‘branch structure’. He explains why the entropic gradients of isolated subsystems are oriented towards the future and not the past, and why we ... -
Naturalism, Functionalism and Chance: Not a Best Fit for the Humean
Fernandes, Alison (Oxford University Press, 2023)How should we give accounts of scientific modal relations, such as laws and chances? According the Humean, we should do so by reducing these relations to parts of non-modal actuality: typically, patterns in actual events, ... -
Pain in the Past and Pleasure in the Future: The Development of Past Future Preferences for Hedonic Goods
Fernandes, Alison (2020)It seems self‐evident that people prefer painful experiences to be in the past and pleasurable experiences to lie in the future. Indeed, it has been claimed that, for hedonic goods, this preference is absolute (Sullivan, ... -
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 ... -
Time, Flies, and Why We Can?t Control the Past
Fernandes, Alison (Harvard University Press, 2023) -
Varieties of Epistemic Freedom
Fernandes, Alison (2016)