Backwards causation and the direction of causal processes

Mind

Volumn 105, Issue 418, 1996, Pages 227-248

  Dowe, Phil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

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EID: 0013533736     PISSN: 00264423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mind/105.418.227     Document Type: Article

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