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This chapter examines a pair of arguments for the nonexistence of free will. One of them is based on the idea that free will depends on agent causation, which is causation of an effect by an agent rather than by events. The other argument is based on the idea that free actions must be uncaused. Both arguments are argued to be unpersuasive. It is argued, more specifically, that we lack good reason to believe that free will depends on agent causation and that this is true as well of the claim that free actions must be uncaused. The chapter’s primary aim is to explain certain incompatibilist ideas about free will more fully than previous chapters did while also extending the discussion of skepticism about free will that began in chapter 6. |
