Dummett on Bringing About the Past

Philosophia 44 (1):113-115 (2016)
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In ‘Bringing about the Past’ Michael Dummett attempted to defend the coherence of the idea of bringing about the past. I agree that bringing about the past is conceptually no more problematic than bringing about the future, but argue, against Dummett, that there is no need to restrict the scope of an agent’s knowledge in order to make sense of intentionally bringing about past events

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10.1007/s11406-015-9679-2

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