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    Genuine freedom of will requires the ability to do otherw... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Even a very specific prophecy that renders an action inevitable does not thereby make that action unfree.

    Genuine freedom of will requires the ability to do otherwise under identical circumstances, as defended by libertarians from Reid to van Inwagen.

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    • 1.Moral responsibility requires that an agent could have chosen differently; otherwise praise/blame are merely manipulative tools.
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    • 2.Determinism entails that given identical past states and laws, only one future is possible, eliminating genuine alternative possibilities.
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    • 3.Our deepest intuition about freedom is that we are genuine agents whose choices originate from us, not mere links in causal chains.
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    • 1.The ability to do otherwise under identical circumstances is metaphysically incoherent—identity includes all causally relevant factors.
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    • 2.Compatibilists show that moral responsibility aligns with determinism if freedom means acting on one's own desires/reasoning.
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    • 3.If libertarian free will requires uncaused choices, those choices seem random rather than free, undermining the original intuition.
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