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    It is not the case that Interpreting determinism as bypassing and inferring the lack of free will and responsibility from that interpretation is rational.

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    • 1.Determinism does not entail bypassing: causal chains running through mental states are still causal chains in which mental states are efficacious.
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    • 2.Compatibilists from Hume to Frankfurt show that 'caused behavior' and 'mental-state-caused behavior' are fully consistent with determinism.
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    • 3.Conflating causal determination with causal bypassing is a conceptual error, not a rational inference from determinism's actual content.
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    • 1.Experimental philosophy research (Nahmias et al. 2005) demonstrates that bypassing intuitions stem from misreading determinism, not from determinism itself.
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    • 2.If a philosophical inference is grounded in a systematic empirical misunderstanding of the premise, that inference is not epistemically rational regardless of its logical form.
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    • 1.If people's mental states have no impact on their behavior, that is an excellent reason to think people are not morally responsible.
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    • 2.If determinism means bypassing (mental states do not cause behavior), then mental states have no impact on behavior.
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