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    A player's decision is free even under eternalism, provid... — Carmelics
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    A player's decision is free even under eternalism, provided the decision is not causally determined.

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    • 1.Freedom of decision requires only the absence of causal determination.
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    • 2.Eternalism does not entail that the player's decision is causally determined by past or future events.
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    • 1.Freedom requires not merely the absence of causal determination, but the existence of alternative possibilities the agent could have actualized.
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    • 2.Under eternalism, the four-dimensional block universe renders all events, including decisions, timelessly fixed and unalterable.
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    • 3.If a decision is timelessly fixed in the block structure, no genuine alternative possibilities exist, regardless of whether causal determination is present.
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    • 1.Sourcehood compatibilists and libertarians alike hold that free will requires the agent to be the originating source of their action.
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    • 2.Pereboom and Strawson argue that if the actual sequence leading to a decision is wholly constituted by factors outside the agent, sourcehood is undermined.
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    • 3.Eternalism locates the agent's decision within a fixed manifold constituted independently of the agent's deliberative stance, violating sourcehood conditions.
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    Philosophers who reject eternalism may not leave the discussion here. They could argue that it may very well be the case that the player’s choice is neither causally determined by past events nor by future events. Yet, eternalism implies that the player’s decision is ontologically determinate before it is made, since it is true today what she will decide tomorrow. Therefore she is not as free as she would be if the future is ontologically open, i.e., it is not yet ontologically determinate what
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