Chance, choice and freedom

The Philosophers' Magazine 55:61-65 (2011)
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What does the idea that you could have done something else at the time come to? According to some philosophers, it comes to this: in a hypothetical universe that has exactly the same past as our universe and exactly the same laws of nature, you do something else at this very time.

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Alfred Mele
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