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    It is not the case that In the Mind there is no absolute, or free, will.

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    Reasons For

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    • 1.First-person deliberative experience reveals a sui generis causal capacity: the self-determining will, irreducible to third-person mechanical causation.
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    • 2.Kant's transcendental idealism demonstrates that noumenal agency operates outside the causal order Spinoza's infinite regress presupposes.
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    • 3.If the regress argument proves too much—eliminating deliberation entirely—it refutes itself by undermining the rational inference Spinoza uses to establish it.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Agent causation, as defended by Roderick Chisholm, posits that persons initiate causal chains without being determined by prior sufficient causes.
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    • 2.Spinoza's argument assumes event causation is the only coherent causal model, but this assumption is a substantive metaphysical commitment, not a logical necessity.
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    Reasons Against

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    • The Mind is determined to will this or that by a cause that is also determined by another cause, and this again by another, and so to infinity.
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