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http://hdl.handle.net/1893/35453| Appears in Collections: | Communications, Media and Culture Journal Articles |
| Peer Review Status: | Refereed |
| Title: | Self-Fulfilling Prophecies |
| Author(s): | Rennick, Stephanie |
| Contact Email: | steph.rennick@stir.ac.uk |
| Keywords: | causal loops self-fulfilling prophecies time travel foreknowledge coincidence inexplicability |
| Issue Date: | 18-Sep-2021 |
| Date Deposited: | 6-Oct-2023 |
| Citation: | Rennick S (2021) Self-Fulfilling Prophecies. <i>Philosophies</i>, 6 (3), p. 78. https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies6030078 |
| Abstract: | Causal loops are a recurring feature in the philosophy of time travel, where it is generally agreed that they are logically possible but may come with a theoretical cost. This paper introduces an unfamiliar set of causal loop cases involving knowledge or beliefs about the future: self-fulfilling prophecy loops (SFP loops). I show how and when such loops arise and consider their relationship to more familiar causal loops. |
| DOI Link: | 10.3390/philosophies6030078 |
| Rights: | © 2021 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Share |
| Licence URL(s): | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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