Black on Backwards Causation

Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 3 (3):230-233 (2014)
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In this discussion paper I argue that Max Black's well-known bilking argument does not succeed in showing the impossibility of backwards causation

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Reality is not structured.Jeremy Goodman - 2017 - Analysis 77 (1):43–53.
On the Epistemic Bilking Argument.Brian Garrett - 2015 - Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 4 (3):139-140.

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Metaphysics and the philosophy of mind.Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe - 1981 - Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Truth and the Past.Michael Dummett - 2003 - Columbia University Press.
Bringing about the past.Michael Dummett - 1964 - Philosophical Review 73 (3):338-359.
Why Cannot an Effect Precede its Cause.Max Black - 1955 - Analysis 16 (3):49-58.

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