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    A person is free to endeavor to make p happen — Carmelics
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    A person is free to endeavor to make p happen

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    • 1.At a certain time there is no sufficient causal condition for the person to endeavor to bring about p
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    • 2.At that time there is no sufficient causal condition for the person to fail to endeavor to bring about p
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    • 1.The mere absence of sufficient causal conditions does not constitute freedom; randomness and freedom are categorically distinct.
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    • 2.If no causal condition determines the endeavor, the action cannot be attributed to the agent's will rather than mere chance.
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    • 3.Agentive freedom requires that the agent be the intelligible source of action, which causal absence alone cannot provide.
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    • 1.Frankfurt's cases demonstrate that freedom requires the ability to act on one's own reasons, not the absence of causal determination.
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    • 2.A person may lack sufficient causal conditions for both endeavoring and not endeavoring, yet still be coerced by manipulation of their deliberative process.
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    • 3.Therefore, the absence of sufficient causal conditions is neither necessary nor sufficient for the kind of freedom relevant to moral responsibility.
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    Notable Defenders

    Roderick ChisholmcontemporaryChisholm's indeterminacy view on the Ship of Theseus
    Roderick ChisholmcontemporaryChisholm 1991, 168
    contemporaryPresents the anti-materialist argument from personal persistence
    Roderick Chisholmcontemporary
    Roderick Chisholmcontemporary
    Roderick ChisholmcontemporaryReferenced directly as the originator of this methodological view on ontological commitment
    Roderick ChisholmcontemporaryReferenced as [1] in passage; originator of the argument that persons as simple substances must be immaterial monads
    Roderick Chisholmcontemporary"Identity through Possible Worlds: Some Questions" (1967b), Noûs 1(1); "Parts as Essential to Their Wholes" (1973, Presidential Address, Metaphysical Society of America); Person and Object [P&O], Appendix B
    C. S. PeircemodernAttributed the surgery-without-anesthesia thought experiment
    Franz BrentanomodernOriginator of the thesis that intentional inexistence is the mark of the mental
    Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizmodernNew Essays, Book II, Chapter xxvii; mentioned for the Luz Bone analogy

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    Chisholm then introduces an element of indeterminism: suppose that at a certain time there is no sufficient causal condition for a person to endeavor to bring about p; suppose in addition that there is then is no sufficient causal condition for him to fail to endeavor to bring about p. Then Chisholm wants to say that he is free to endeavor to make p happen.
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    Frankfurt's cases demonstrate that freedom requires the ability to act on one's ...If no causal condition determines the endeavor, the action cannot be attributed ...The mere absence of sufficient causal conditions does not constitute freedom; ra...Therefore, the absence of sufficient causal conditions is neither necessary nor ...
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