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Huw Price on Backward Causation

Philosophy Bites

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Hugh Price believes that backward causation is not only conceivable, but in fact offers the best explanation for the strange discoveries of modern physics. Physics has no sense of past and future so where could it be grounded? So those sorts of thoughts have bothered philosophers for pretty much exactly a hundred years since one of the first people who raised them was Russell in 1912. This is Philosophy Bites with David Edmonds and Nigel Warberton.

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