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    It is not the case that Human beings are endowed with power over their own conduct.

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    • 1.All mental events, including volitions, are fully determined by prior physical states of the brain and antecedent causal chains.
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    • 2.If every volition is the inevitable product of prior causes, humans lack genuine power to have acted otherwise than they did.
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    • 3.The appearance of self-governance is a post-hoc rationalization of neurologically determined outcomes, not evidence of real causal power over conduct.
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    • 1.The moral practices of praise, blame, and accountability can be fully reconstructed on compatibilist grounds without requiring libertarian agent causation.
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    • 2.Strawson's reactive attitudes account and Dennett's heterophenomenology show moral responsibility is grounded in relational dispositions, not metaphysical self-origination.
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    • 3.That our practices presuppose power over conduct shows only that we operate with a folk-psychological assumption, not that the assumption is metaphysically vindicated.
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    • 1.The very concept of a morally accountable being presupposes that that being has power over his conduct.
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    • 2.Human beings are morally accountable beings.
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    • 3.None of our moral practices of holding ourselves and others accountable would make sense if we did not believe ourselves and others to have power over our conduct.
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