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    Challenges→Kant's Critical Philosophy's phenomenal/noumenal distinction is necessary to preserve the possibility of moral agency.

    A freedom that operates entirely outside space, time, and causation cannot intelligibly explain how deliberation produces action, leaving moral agency unexplained rather than preserved.

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    Intelligibly(describing whether an argument or doubt is meaningful)
    In a way that makes sense or can be clearly understood by others.
    causation(Lewis's counterfactual theory of causation)
    Event C causes event E if and only if there exists a chain C, D1, …, Dn, E such that each member (except C) is counterfactually dependent on the preceding event; causation is the ancestral of counterfactual dependence
    deliberation(Aristotelian practical reasoning)
    A form of practical reasoning in which an agent has some end and reasons to a sufficient means for achieving that end.
    freedom (in philosophical context)(metaphysics and theology)
    The ability to make genuine choices that aren't completely determined by outside forces or God's will.
    moral agency

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    (Debated in the context of whether AI systems can qualify as moral agents)
    The status of being an entity toward which others have moral duties, and which may itself bear moral duties.

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