Free will: Incompatibilism 1, libertarianism

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The subjective perspective:
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
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The consequence argument:
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
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The sourcehood argument:
(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
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The libertarian account of free will is called...
Contra-causal
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What is the name of the challenge to libertarianism?
The intelligibility question
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What are the two conditions for free will?
The requirement of alternate possibilities and the requirement for ultimate responsibility
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Leeway libertarianism:
places emphasis on the requirement that there must be leeway for me to do otherwise at the performance of the act
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Source libertarianism:
stresses the requirement that one must be the true cause or ultimate source of at least some of one’s actions
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Agent causalism:
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
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What are self-forming actions?
The undetermined actions that relate to crucial decisions that help form one’s character or moral beliefs
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According to Robert Kane, what makes an action free?
Somewhere between the beginning of the universe and the action you made, there was an SFA that served as a buck-stopper
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According to Robert Kane, how often are our actions free?
Rarely
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Event causation:
An agent’s having certain complexes of desires and beliefs can cause events, and these desires and beliefs are caused by events
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Agent causation:
An agent features irreducibly in the causal explanation of an action
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What is the buck-stopper according to Thomas Reid?
The exercise of active power
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What is Reid's concept of active power?
If the agent is able both to will to do x and to refrain from willing to do x
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