Before Effect Without Zeno Causality

Noûs 46 (2):259-264 (2012)
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We argue that not all cases of before-effect involve causation and ask how to demarcate cases of before-effect in which the events that follow exert causal influence over the before-effect from cases in which they do not

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10.1111/j.1468-0068.2010.00812.x

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Infinity.José A. Benardete - 1964 - Oxford,: Clarendon Press.
A reply to new Zeno.S. Yablo - 2000 - Analysis 60 (2):148-151.
Before-effect and Zeno causality.John Hawthorne - 2000 - Noûs 34 (4):622–633.
A reply to new Zeno.Stephen Yablo - 2000 - Analysis 60 (2):148–151.

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