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Could you share your thoughts on various resources (both pro and con) on agent causation and its role in libertarian free will? ... I am a philosophy student studying the question of free will, and I was wondering if you have any thoughts on resources (both pro and con) on agent causation and its role in libertarian free will.
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www.thirdmill.org/answers/answer.asp/file/99731.qna/cat...
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Agent Causation: Before and After the Ontological Turn ... Agent causation is usually advocated by believers in libertarian free will. One might think that it is postulated in order to allow for agents originating causal processes.
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www.lrz-muenchen.de/~dvw/papers/2002_agentc.html
www.lrz-muenchen.de/~dvw/papers/2002_agentc.html
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Among the band of philosophers who hold that free will is supernatural, one of the reigning ideas is called agent causation. This hypothesis states that volitional acts are a special category of event, one that is caused not by any other event but - in some deeply mysterious way - by the agent itself.
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www.daylightatheism.org/2009/01/on-agent-causation.html
www.daylightatheism.org/2009/01/on-agent-causation.html
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2. If one thinks that Velleman’s attempt to replace the agent with a special motive fails, one might want to take literally the idea that the agent picks through motives, etc. This would give one what Velleman calls “agent causation”. Agent causation is one of the most popular libertarian accounts of free will.
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www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ap85/001/2004/AgentCausation...
www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ap85/001/2004/AgentCausation.html
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AGENT CAUSATION AND RESPONSIBILITY: A REPLY TO FLINT ... This is a slight modification of the typical Reidian understanding of agent causation, which, according to William Rowe, is just like the above except that it replaces 3 with:
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web.ics.purdue.edu/~bergmann/flint.htm
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On a standard libertarian account of free will, an agent acts freely on some occasion only if there remains, until the action is performed, some chance that the agent will do something else instead right then.
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www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/papq/2005/00000086/0...
www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/papq/2005/00000086/00000003/art00007
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Agent Causation: Before and After the Ontological Turn; Daniel von Wachter, Oxford; 1. Section: Persons as Agents; Imagine Ludwig has a cup of tea for breakfast. He pours it; he eats his egg until it seems to him that the tea should have the right temperature;
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epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1963/1/wachter_2003-agent-causa...
epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1963/1/wachter_2003-agent-causation.pdf
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I recently reread Roderick Chisholm's classic paper on libertarian free will, "Human Freedom and the Self," in which Chisholm presents and defends the idea of agent causation as a solution to the standard dilemma faced by libertarians.
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atheologian.blogspot.com/2009/04/libertarian-agent-caus...
atheologian.blogspot.com/2009/04/libertarian-agent-causation.html
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Allen, Robert F. (online). Agent causation and ultimate responsibility. (Google | More links) ... Haji, Ishtiyaque (2004). Active control, agent-causation and free action. Philosophical Explorations 7 (2):131-148. (Cited by 4 | Google | More links)
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consc.net/mindpapers/5.4b.1
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