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Episode 14: Free Will Skepticism with Gregg Caruso

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Is the Event Causal Libertarian View a Variant of the Luck Argument?

i like to put it more in the terms of dirk pirum's disappearing agent argument. i argue that that's exactly the kind of control and action that would be required for agents to be morally responsible, he says. A lot of event causal libertarians don't necessarily argue that we have good reason for thinking the world is as their views describe them. Instead their giving us a particular account that would make the notion plausible or conceivable. I think agent causal libertarians could supply what's missing from the event causal accounts. But they can't be reconciled with our best physical theories about the world. They face additional problems accounting for mental causation. Ah, so that sort of leads to a version of

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