Retrocausality

A Bibliography

compiled by Klaus Scharff


Agazzi, Evandro
Time and Causality
Epistomologica, Vol.1, 1978, pp. 397-424


Aharonov, Y. and Vaidman, L.
Properties of a Quantum System During the Time Interval Between Two Measurements
Phys. Rev. A, 41, 1990, p.11


Aharony, Amnon amd Neeman, Yuval
Time Reversal, Symmetry Violation and the Oscillating Universe
Intern. Journal of Theoretical Physics, Vol.3, No.6, 1970, pp.437-471


Anglin,W.S.
Backwards Causation
Analysis, Vol.41, March,1981,.86-91


Atkinson,D.
Quantum Mechanics and Retrocausality
in: The Universe,Visions and Perspectives Kluwer Academics , Ed. N. Dadhich and A. Kembhavi, 2000, pages 35-50.


Baker, A.
Time Reversal
in "Modern Physics and Antiphysics", Reading, MA 1970


Bartels, Andreas
Kausalitätsverletzungen in allgemeinrelativistischen Raumzeiten
Reihe Erfahrung und Denken, Bd.68 Drucker und Humblot, Berlin 1986


Bechara,A./Damasio,H./Tranel,D./Damasio,A.R.
Deciding Advantageously Before Knowing the Advantegeous Strategy
Science, Vol.275, 28.Febr.,1997, pp.1293-1295


Beg, Moazziz A.
Precognition, Awareness and Space-Time Metric Field
Journal of Indian Psychology, Vol.4, No.2, 1985, pp.98-103


Belnap, Nuel
Branching Space Time
Synthese, Vol.92, 1992, pp.385-434


Belnap, Nuel
Agents of Branching Time (Typescript)
University of Pittsburgh 1993


Benett, J.
Counterfactuals, and Temporal Direction
Philosophical Review, Vol.93, 1984, pp.57-91


Benthem, Johan Van
Later than Late: On the Logical Origin of the Temporal Order
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Vol.63, April 1982, pp.193-203


Berenda, C.W.
Determination of the Past by Future Events: A Discussion of the Wheeler-Feynman
Absorption-Radiation-Theory
Philosophy of Science, Vol.14, 1947, pp.13-19


Black,M.
Why cannot an effect precede its cause?
Analysis, Vol.16, 1956, 49-58


Brier, B.
Magicians, Alarm Clocks and Backward Causation
Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol.11, 1973, pp. 359-364


Broad, C.D. and Price, H.H.
The Philosophical Implications of Precognition
Aristotelian Society Supplement, Vo.16, 1937, pp.211-228


Brown, B.
Defending Backward Causation
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol.22, 1992, 429-44


Bunge, Mario
Time Asymmetry, Time Reversal and Irreversibility
Studium Generale, Vol.23 1970 p.562


Burgess, John P.
Decidability for Branching Time
Studia Logica, Vol.39, 1980, pp. 203-218


Callender, Craig
The Metaphysics of Time Reversal: Hutchinson on Classical Mechanics
British Journ. Phil. Sci., 43(3), 1995, pp.331-340


Chari, C.T.K.
Time Reversal, Information Theory and "World-Geometry"
Journal of Philosophy, Vol.60, 1963, pp.579-583


Chari, C.T.K.
A Note on Multidimensional Time
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol.8, 1958, pp.155-158


Christensen, Ferrel
Time's Error. Is Time's Asymmetry extrinsic?
Erkenntnis, Vol.26, 1987, pp.231-248


Craig, Kalen J., Craig, Eugene A., and Pankey, Titus
Speculations Concerning Two-Dimensional Time
Speculations in Science and Technology, Vol.1, No.4, 1978, pp.377-388


De, U.K.
Paths in Universes Having Closed Time-Like Lines
Journal of Physics A, Vol 2, 1969, pp.427-432


de Beauregard,C.O.
Running backwards the Mermin device: causality in EPR correlations American Journal of Physics,Vol.51,6 June 1983, pp.513-516


de Beauregard, C.O.
Retrocausality & Conditional Probability: reply to CIJM Stuart
Foundations of Physics Letters, V 4, p253-263, 1991


Dobbs, H.A.C.
Time and ESP
Proceedings of the Society of Psychical Research, Vol.54, 1965


Donald, J.A. and Martin, B.
Time Symmetric Thermodynamics and Causality Violation
European Journal of Parapsychology, Vol.1, 1976, pp.17-36


Dowe, Phil
Backwards Causation and the Direction of Causal Processes
Mind, Vol.105, 418, April 1996, pp. 227-248


Dowe, Phil
Process Causation and Asymmetry
Erkenntnis, Vol.37, 1992, pp. 179-196


Driver, R.D.
Can the Future Influence the Present?
Physical Review D, 19, February 1979, pp.1098-1107


Dummett,M.A.E.
Can an Effect precede its Cause?
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Suppl.Vol.38, 27-44


Dummett, M.A.E.
Bringing about the Past
Philosophical Review, Vol.73, 338-59


Dwyer, Larry
Time Travel and Changing of the Past
Philosophical Studies, May 1975


Dwyer,Larry
How to effect, but not change the past
Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol.15, 1977, 383-385


Dwyer,Larry
Time Travel and Some Alleged Logical Asymmetries Between Past and Future
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol.8, 1978, 15-38


Earman, John
On Going Backwards in Time
Philosophy of Science, Vol.34, 1967, pp.211-222


Earman, John
Recent Work On Time Travel
In:Time's Arrow TodayEd. Steven S.Savitt
Cambridgwe University Press, 1995, pp. 268-310


Elsasser, W.M.
Acausal Phenomena in Physics and Biology
American Scientist, Vol.57, 1969, pp.502-516


Fantappih, L.
Teoria unitaria de la causalidad y finalidad en los fenrmenos fisicos y
biologicos, fundada en la mecanica ondulatoria y relativistica
Revista Matematica Hispano-americana, 1943


Fantappih, L.
Die antizipierten Potentiale der Wellenmechanik als Bilder von Biologischen Vorgangen
Naturwissenschaften, 1943


Faye,Jan
Causation, Reversibility and the Direction of Time
in Perspectives on Time, Ed. Faye/Scheffler/Urchs, Kluwer Academics, 1997,237-266


Faye, Jan
The Reality of the Future - An essay on time, causation and backward causation
Odense University Press, Odense, 1989


Feinberg, Gerald
Precognition: A Memory of Things Future
from "Quantum Physics and Parapsychology,
Proceedings of an International Conference Held in Geneva, August 26-27, 1975", 54-75


Fields, H.
On the Status of the Direction of Time
Methodology of Science, Vol.12, 1979, 213-235


Fischhoff, Baruch and Beyth, Ruth
"I knew it would happen": Remembered Probabilities of Once Future Things
Organizational Behaviour and Human Performance, Vol.13, No.1, 1975, .1-16


Fitzgerald, Paul
Tachyons, Backwards Causation and Freedom
from Boston Studies in Philosophy of Science, Vol. 8, 1970, 415-436


Fitzgerald, Paul
On Retrocausality
Philosophia , Vol.4, Oct.,1974, 513-551


Flew, A.G.N.
Magicians, Alarm Clocks, and Backward Causation: A Comment
Southern Journal of Philososphy, Vol.11, 1973, pp.365-366


Flew,A.G.N.
Can an Effect Precede Its Cause?
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Suppl.Vol.38, 1954, 45-62


Freddoso, A.J.
Accidental Necessity and Power over the Past
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Vol.63, 1982 ,54-68


Frolov, V.P.
Vacuum Polarization in a Locally Static Multiply Connected Space-Time and a Time-Machine Problem
Physical Review D, 43, June 1991, pp.3878-3894


Fulmer, G.
Time Travel, Determinism and Fatalism
Philosophical Speculations in Science and Fantasy, Vol.1, Spring 1981, pp.41-48


Gardner, Martin
Mathematical Games: On Altering the Past, Delaying the Future and Other Ways of Tampering With Time
Scientific American, Vol.240, March 1979, pp.21-30


Gatlin, L.L.
Time-Reversed Information Transmission
International Journal of Theoretical Physics, Vol.19, January 1980, pp.25-29


Gerver, J.
The Past as Backwards Movies of the Future
Physics Today, Vol.24, 1971, p.40


Gruber, Elmar R.
Conforming of Pre-Recorded Group Behaviour with Disposed Observers. In: William G. Roll (ed.), Research in Parapsychology 1979. Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, 1980, 134-136.


Gruber Elmar R.
PK Effects on Pre-Recorded Group Behaviour of Living Systems. European Journal of Parapsychology, 3, 1980, 167-75.


Grunbaum, Adolf
Are Physical Events Themselves Transiently Past, Present and Future? A Reply to H.A.C. Dobbs
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol.20, 1969, pp.145-162


Grunbaum, Adolf
Is Preacceleration of Particles in Dirac's Electrodynamics a Case of Backward Causation?
The Myth of Retrocausation in Classical Electrodynamics
Philosophy of Science, Vol. 43, 1976, pp.165-201


Hamilton, W.R.
Theory of Conjugate Functions or Algebraic Couples with a Preliminary and Elementary
Essay on Algebra as the Science of Pure Time
Trans. Royal Irish Academy, Vol17, 1837, pp.293-422


Hausman, D.M.
Causal Asymmetries
Cambridge Studies, 1998


Healey, R.A.
Causation, Robustness and EPR
Philosophy of Science, Vol.59, 1992 , 282--292


Horwich, Paul
Closed Causal Chains
In: Time's Arrow Today Ed.Steven S.Savitt, Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp.259-268


Hoyle, F. and Narlikar, J.V.
Time Symmetric Electrodynamics and the Arrow of Time
Proceedings of the Royal Society, Vol.277, 1964, pp.1-23


Hurley, J.
The Time Asymmetry Paradox
American Journal of Physics, Vol.54, January 1986, pp.25-28


Inge, W.R.
Is the Time Series Reversible?
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Vol.21, 1921, pp.1-12


Jones, M.R.
Only Time Can Tell: On the Topology of Mental Space and Time
Critical Inquiry, Vol.7, 1981, pp.557-567


Kim, S.W. and Thorne, K.S.
Do Vacuum Fluctuations Prevent the Creation of Closed Timelike Curves?
Physical Review D 43, June 1991, pp.3929-3947


Klein, Stanley A.
Do Apparent Temporal Anomalies Require Nonclassical Explanation?
Toward a Science of Consciousness III
The Third Tucson Discussions and Debate, ed. by Stuart Hameroff and D.J.Chalmers,1999,pp.343-357


Klintman, Holger
Is there a Paranormal (Precognitive) Influence in Certain Types of Perceptual Sequences?
European Journal of Parapsychology, 5,1983,pp.19-49,5,1984,pp.125-140


Kozsyrew, N.
Possibility of Experimental Study of Properties of Time
JPRS, US. Dept. of Commerce, 45238, May 2, 1968


Krasnikov,S.V.
Causality Violations and Paradoxes
Physical Review D, , Vol.54, Iss.12, pp 7322-7327


Kriele,M.
Causality Violations and Causality
General Relativity and Gravitation, Vol.22, 1990, 619-623


Krips, H.
The Asymmetry of Time
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol.49, 1971, pp.204-210


Kronz, F.M.
The Projection Postulate and the Time-Energy-Uncertainty Relation
Philosophy of Science, Vol.59, 1, 1992, pp.1-15


Lacey, H.M.
The Causal Theory of Time: A Critique of Grunbaum's Version
Philosophy of Science, Vol.35, 1968, pp.332-354


Le Poidevin,R.
On the Acausality of Time, Space and Space-Time
Analysis, Vol.52, 1992 , 146-154


Libet, B.
The Neural Time Factor in Perception, Volition, and Free Will
Revue de Metaphysique et de Morale, 2, 1992, p.255-272


Libet, B., Wright, E.W. Jr., Feinstein, B., and Pearl, D.K.
Subjective Referral of the Timing for a Conscious Sensory Experience
Brain, 102, 1979, p.193-224


Li-Xinli, Jian-Meixu, and Liaou-Liu
Complex Geometry, Quantum Tunneling and Time Machines
Physical Review D, Particles and Fields, Vol.48, No.10, 1993, pp.4735-4737


Lopata, Helena Z.
Time in Anticipated Future and Events in Memory
American Behavioural Scientist Vol.29, No.6, 1986, pp.695-709


Lynch, J.R.
Imaging Past, Present, Future in one Piece
Studies in Formative Spirituality, Vol.6, No.1, 19s85, pp.65-72


Lysiak,R./Mays,R.
Yes, light can be made to move backwards in time
Specula, Vol.3 (3), July-Sept., 1980, p. 18


MacBeath, Murray
Communication and Time Reversal
Synthese, Vol. 56, 1983, pp.27-46


Margenau, H.
Can Time Flow Backwards?
Philosophy of Science, Vol.21, No.2, April 1954, pp.79-92


Maudlin, Tim
Time Travel and Topology
Proc.Phil.Sci.Assoc. 1990, pp.303-315


McCall, Storrs
Objective Time Flow
Philosophy of Science, Vol.43, 1976, pp.337-362


Mellor, D.H.
Causation and the Direction of Time
Erkenntnis , Vol.35, 1991, 191-203


Meiland, Jack W.
A Two Dimensional Passage Model of Time for Time Travel
Philosophical Studies, Vol.26, 1974, pp.153-173


Murphy, Gardner
Direct Contacts with Past and Future: Retrocognition and Precognition
Journal of the American Society of Psychical Research, Vol.61, No.1, 1967, pp.3-23


Muses, Charles
Trance States, Precognition and the Nature of Time
Journal for the Study of Consciousness, Vol.5, No.1, p.77M


Muses, Charles
Time, Experience, and Dimensionality: An Introduction to Higher Kinds of Number
Annals of the New York Academy of Science, Vol.138, 1967, pp.646-660


Muses, Charles
Hypernumbers and Time Operators
Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computing, Vol.13, 1984


Ni, P.
Changing the Past
Nous, Vol.26, 1992, pp.349-59


Nerlich, Graham
How to Make Things Have Happened
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol.9, No.1, 1979, pp.1-22


Novikov, I.D.
Time Machine and Self-Consistent Evolutions in Problems With Self-Interaction
Physical Review D 45, March 1992, pp.1989-1994


Nusenhoff, Ronald E.
Two Dimensional Time
Philosophical Studies, Vol.29, 1976, pp.337-341


Oddie,G.
Backward Causation and the Permanence of the Past
Synthese, Vol.85, 1990 , 71-93


Orme, J.E.
Precognition and Time
Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, Vol.47, June 1964, pp.351-365


Osis, Karlis
Precognition over Time Intervals of One to Thirty-three Days
Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, Vol.12, 1955, pp.82-91


Osis, Karlis and Fahler, J.
Space and Time in ESP
Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, Vol.59, 1965, pp.130-145


Papineau, D.
Causal Asymmetry
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol.14, 1979, pp.429-434


Park, David
Should Physicists Say That the Past Really Happened?
from "Time and Mind, The Study of Time VI", Ed. J.T. Fraser, International Universities, Madison, 1989, pp.125-139


Pegg, D.T.
Closed Time and Absorber Theory
Natural Physical Science, Vol.243, 1973, p.143


Peres, A. and Shulman, L.S.
Signals from the Future
International Journal of Theoretical Physics, Vol.6, 1972, pp.377-382


Philmus, Robert M.
The Time Machine or the Fourth Dimension as Prophecy
PMLA, 84, 1969, pp.530-535


Post, E.J.
The Logic of Time Reversal
Foundations of Physics, Vol.9, 1979 pp.129-161


Price, Huw
The Philosophy and Physics of Affecting the Past
Synthese, Vol.61, 1984, pp.299-323


Price,Huw
Agency and Causal Asymmetry
Mind, Vol.101, 1992, 501-520


Price, Huw
Backward Causation and the Directional Causal Process: A Reply to Dowe
Mind Vol. 105, No.419, 467-474, 1996


Radin, Dean I.
Unconscious Perception of Future Emotions. An Experiment in Presentiment.
Proceedings of the 39th Parapsychological Association, San Diego, 1996, pp.171-185


Remnant, P.
Peter Damian: Could God Change the Past?
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol.8, June, 1978, 259-268


Rietdijk, C.W.
Proof of Retroactive Influence
Foundations of Physics, Vol.8, 1978, 615-28


Rietdijk,C.W.
Another Proof that the Future Can Influence the Past
Foundations of Physics, Vol.17, March,1981, 783-790


Rietdijk,C.W.
Retroactive Effects from Measurements
Foundations of Physics, Vol.17, March, 1987, 297-311


Roberts, F.S
Time Perception and Precognition
Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, Vol.59, (831) 1993, pp.141-148


Rucker, Rudy von
Faster than Light, Slower than Time
Speculations in Science and Technology, Vol.4, October 1981, pp.375-383


Schmidt,H.
Can an effect precede its cause?
Foundations of Physics, Vol.8,June, 1978, 463-480


Schmeidler, Gertrud R.
An Experiment on Precognitive Clairvoyance: Precognition scores related to the subject's way of viewing time
Journal of Psychology, Vol.28, 1964, pp.93-101


Schuster, Melvin M.
On the Denial of Past and Future Events
Review of Metaphysics, Vol.21, 1968, pp.447-467


Smith,J.W.
Time Travel and Backward Causation
In: Reason, Science and Paradox, Croon Helm, London, 1986, 49-58


Sklar, Lawrence
Prospects for a Causal Theory of Space-Time
from "Space, Time and Causality", ed. R. Swinburne
Dordrech/Boston 1983, pp.45-62


Sober,E.
Temporal Asymmetric Inference in a Markov Process
Philosophy of Science Vol.58,1991,398-410


Sorensen, R.A.
Time Travel, Parahistory and Hume
Philosophy, Vol.62, 1987, pp.227-236


Spellman,L.
Causing Yesterday's Effects
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol.12, March,1982, 145-161


Srivastava, Y. and Widom, A.
Interference between past and future events in phi -> (kaon)(anti-kaon) decays
Physics Letters B, Vol.314, 1993, pp.315-319


Stark, Stanley
Temporal and Atemporal Foresight
Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Vol.2., No.1, 1962, pp.56-74


Stern,C.D.
The Temporal Priority of Causes: Full Eplanation or Full Circle
Analysis, Vol.53, 1993, 147-154


Stokes, Douglas M.
Theories of anomalous temporal phenomena
Parapsychology-Review , Nov-Dec Vol 16(6), 1985 12-15


Sutherland,R.I.
Bell's Theorem and Backwards-in-Time-Causality
International Journal of Physics, Vol.22, 377-84


Swinburne,R.G.
Affecting the Past
Philosophical Quarterly, Vol.16, Oct,1966, 341-347


Tiller, William A.
The Positive and Negative Space/Time Frames as Conjugate Systems
from "Future Science: From Physics to Metaphysics", Ch.23, pp.257-279


Tipler, Frank J.
Singularities and Causality Violation
General Relativity and Gravitation,, Vol.10, No.2 1979 , 983-984


Tipler, Frank. J.
Causality Violation in Asymptotically Flat Space-Times
Physical Letters, Vol.37 1976 , 979


Tipler, Frank J.
Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violations
Physical Review D, Vol.9, No.8 1974 , 2203-220


Travis, John
Could a Pair of Cosmic Strings Open a Route Into the Past?
Science, Vol.256, April 1992, pp.179-180


Vassy, Z.
Experimental Study of Precognitive Timing: Indication of a Radically Non-Causal Operation
Journal of Parapsychology, Vol.54, 1990, pp.299-320


Waterlow, Sarah
Backwards Causation and Continuing
Mind, Vol.83, 1974, pp.372-387


Weingard, Robert
On Travelling Backward in Time
Synthese, vol.24, 1972, pp.115-132


Weir, Susan
Closed Time and Causal Loops:A Defence Against Mellor
Analysis, Vol.48, 1988, pp.203-209


Yndurain, F.J.
Disappearance of Matter Due to Causality and Probability Violations in Theories with Extra Timelike Dimensions
Physics Letters B, Vol.256, February 1991, pp.15-16


Young, Peter C.
Recursive Approaches to Time-Series Analysis
Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Vol.10, 1974, pp.209-224