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    Challenges→Dual standpoint theories are unsatisfactory because they refuse to answer how agents exercise control over actions in a world fully explicable by event-causation

    All physical movements can in principle be explained in terms of event-causation

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    Others, yet, press the disappearing agent objection in order to motivate a dual standpoint theory. According to dual standpoint theories, agency cannot be explained from any theoretical standpoint or metaphysical framework. Agency can only be understood from a practical and normative standpoint (Nagel 1986; Korsgaard 1996; Bilgrami 2006, for instance). Arguably, this view has its roots in Kant’s account of practical reason (see the entry on Kant and Hume on morality). Usually, dual standpoint th

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