Free will: Incompatibilism 1, libertarianism

1. What is the name of the challenge to libertarianism?

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The requirement of alternate possibilities and the requirement for ultimate responsibility
The requirement of limited possibilities and the requirement of ultimate responsibility
The requirement of ultimate possibilities and the requirement for alternate responsibility
The requirement of alternate possibilities and the requirement for moral responsibility

stresses the requirement that one must be the true cause or ultimate source of at least some of one’s actions
places emphasis on the requirement that there must be leeway for me to do otherwise at the performance of the act
the true explanation of an action’s causes makes essential, ineliminable reference to an agent, the true cause of an action is not a set of beliefs and desires but an individual being, who was not caused or determined to act in such a way

If determinism is true, then our acts are the consequences of the laws of nature and events in the remote past. But these are not up to us; therefore the consequences of these things are not up to us
(1) A person acts of their own free will only if they are its ultimate source (2) If determinism is true, no one is the ultimate source of their actions (3) If determinism is true, no one acts of their own free will
Determinism rules out free will because, if true, the source of an agent’s actions do not originate do not originate in them but are traceable to factors outside them
We are free when presented with choices where we can choose any of the different options placed in front of us, influenced by our tastes, beliefs, desires; we could have done otherwise than we did; we were not subject to compulsion or coercion

An agent’s having certain complexes of desires and beliefs can cause events, and these desires and beliefs are caused by events
An agent features irreducibly in the causal explanation of an action
Everything is caused by the same event
Actions are always directly caused by events