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Huw Price on Backward Causation
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16 minutes
Released:
Jul 15, 2012
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Podcast episode
Description
Effects can't precede their causes, can they? The direction of causation is forwards not backwards. But this common belief doesn't mesh with every aspect of contemporary physics. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Huw Price discusses the counterintuitive idea that retro-causation might occur. Philosophy Bites is made in association with the Institute of Philosophy.
Released:
Jul 15, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode
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