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  1. Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 5185 Helen C. White Hall, 600 North Park Street, Madison, WI, 53706, USA

    Carolina Sartorio

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I am specially grateful to Karen Bennett, Juan Comesaña, and Laurie Paul for their helpful comments and criticisms. Thanks also to Adam Elga, Liz Harman, John Hawthorne, Ned Markosian, Cei Maslen, Daniel Nolan, Josh Parsons, Jonathan Schaffer, Gabriel Uzquiano, Stephen Yablo, the audience at the 2004 Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, and the members of the metaphysics and epistemology reading group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Sartorio, C. On Causing Something to Happen in a Certain Way Without Causing it to Happen. Philos Stud 129, 119–136 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-005-3023-9

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