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agent causation: a standalone construct

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Philosophy of action

view that free actions are caused by the agent as a substance, not wholly by prior events, as the basis of libertarian free will.

In philosophy of action, agent causation refers to view that free actions are caused by the agent as a substance, not wholly by prior events, as the basis of libertarian free will. This meaning comes from Clarke (1993) in Noûs.[1]

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References

Clarke, R. (1993). Toward A Credible Agent-Causal Account of Free Will. Noûs, 27(2), 191. https://doi.org/10.2307/2215755

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