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Based in Edinburgh, Scotland, Patrick is a faculty member, as a Chancellor's Fellow, at the University of Edinburgh. He completed his PhD in philosophy (December 2011) at the University of California, Riverside. He is interested in metaphysics, ethics, free will and moral responsibility, and philosophy of religion.

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All in Causation

Feb 26
Feb 26 On Behalf of a Mutable Future

Preston Todd

Causation, The Open Future, Time and Change

Synthese:1-19 (forthcoming)

Everyone agrees that we can’t change the past. But what about the future? Though the thought that we can change the future is familiar from popular discourse, it enjoys virtually no support from philosophers, contemporary or otherwise. In this paper, I argue that the thesis that the future is mutable has far more going for it than anyone has yet realized.

Feb 26 Feb 26 On Behalf of a Mutable Future

Synthese:1-19 (forthcoming)

Based in Edinburgh, Scotland, Patrick is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. He completed his PhD in philosophy (December 2011) at the University of California, Riverside. He is interested in metaphysics, ethics, free will and moral responsibility, and philosophy of religion.

Feb 26
Feb 26 On Behalf of a Mutable Future