"If one doesn’t, one’s freedom is diminished—not by determinism or the fact that one’s decision has prior causes, but by a lack of hypothetical liberty.If we think of freedom as the ability to do otherwise, understood in Hume’s way—if I decide to do A, I will; if I decide otherwise, I won’t—then it is perfectly compatible with determinism: Freedom turns on how effective we are in executing our i..."

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