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  1. Department of Philosophy Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, P.O. Box 4, ACT 2600, Canberra, Australia

    Huw Price

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I am grateful to Jeremy Butterfield, Richard Healey, Frank Jackson, Hugh Mellor, Graham Nerlich, Christie Slade, Jack Smart, and participants in seminars in Cambridge and Canberra, for many helpful comments on earlier versions of this paper.

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Price, H. The philosophy and physics of affecting the past. Synthese 61, 299–323 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485056

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