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    Agent-causal accounts do not provide such an explanation. — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Agent-causal accounts fail because they cannot explain what an agent's exercise of control consists in.

    Agent-causal accounts do not provide such an explanation.

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    The event-causal framework is by far the most widely accepted view in the contemporary philosophy of mind and action. One reason for this is that the commitment to the event-causal framework is tantamount to a commitment to a very minimal and widely endorsed kind of naturalism, according to which any appeal to irreducible substance-causation or teleology is to be avoided. Further, this commitment to the event-causal framework is sustained by a widespread dissatisfaction with alternative agent-ca

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