Backwards Causation in Social Institutions

Abstract Whereas many philosophers take backwards causation to be impossible, the few who maintain its possibility either it absent from actual world or else confined theoretical physics. Here, however, I argue that is not only actual, but common, though occurring in context of our social institutions. After juxtaposing my cases with a others literature and arguing we should seriously reality causal these contexts, consider several objections. These objections involve whether reinterpreted, they are properly within institution, necessitation Cambridge changes, how changing past, this call us question institutional reality. end by suggesting virtue institutions allow causation, kind technology often built incorporate.