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    Frankfurt-style cases notwithstanding, Peter van Inwagen'... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→An action can be inevitable and yet still be a free action.

    Frankfurt-style cases notwithstanding, Peter van Inwagen's consequence argument establishes that inevitability entails the agent could not have initiated any different causal chain.

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    Key Terms

    Consequence argument(Contemporary incompatibilist philosophy of free will)
    The most influential contemporary argument for incompatibilism, grounded in beliefs that humans cannot change the laws of nature or causally affect the past
    Frankfurt-style cases(Central to debates about the relationship between moral responsibility and alternative possibilities.)
    Thought experiments designed to show that an agent can be morally responsible for an action even when the agent lacks the ability to do otherwise, typically involving a counterfactual intervener (like Black) who would ensure a particular outcome if the agent showed any inclination otherwise.
    Peter van Inwagen(as a philosopher whose ideas are discussed)
    A contemporary American philosopher who specializes in metaphysics (the study of what exists and how things are fundamentally structured).
    agent(Economics terminology applied to medical ethics)

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    The party in a principal-agent relationship who is instructed to produce the good or service on the principal's behalf — in the medical context, the doctor
    causal chain(Avicenna's cosmological argument in Ilāhiyyāt VIII)
    An ordered series of causes within a given causal type (formal, material, efficient, or final) that Avicenna argues must terminate in a First Cause
    entails(describes a logical relationship between statements)
    Logically forces or guarantees; if A entails B, then whenever A is true, B must also be true.
    inevitability(The intuition that determinism implies inevitability is identified as the primary obstacle to accepting compatibilism.)
    The condition in which, given determinism, every event that occurs could not have been otherwise.

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