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    It is not the case that However, libertarian agent causation—defended by Roderick Chisholm and Timothy O'Connor—entails that some states of affairs are producible only by a specific agent with a specific causal history.

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    • 1.Agent causation posits causal powers without clear physical basis, violating parsimony and making empirical verification impossible.
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    • 2.If an agent's specific history is necessary for an act, that history causally constrains the act—undermining the claimed freedom.
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    • 3.Event causation via agent intentions adequately explains responsibility without invoking metaphysically mysterious agent-causation.
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    • 1.Agent causation explains how persons can be ultimate originators of action, not merely conduits for prior physical causes.
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    • 2.Only libertarian agent causation preserves genuine moral responsibility; otherwise agents are just links in causal chains.
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    • 3.Personal identity and historical continuity make it intelligible that only this agent with this history can produce certain acts.
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