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    Kane's appeal to indeterminate efforts of will and indeterminism does not help meet the luck objection against event-causal libertarianism

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    • 1.Quantum indeterminacy in neural processes introduces genuine randomness into choice, but randomness is not equivalent to agent-directed control.
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    • 2.Kane's SFWs require the agent to be the *cause* of which indeterminate branch actualizes, yet event-causal accounts lack resources to assign this selection to the agent rather than chance.
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    • 3.Mele's 'luck pincer' establishes that indeterminism either reduces agent control (if pre-decisional) or renders the outcome arbitrary (if decisional), leaving no viable middle ground for Kane.
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    • 1.Pereboom's four-case manipulation argument shows that causal histories structurally identical to deterministic ones inherit the same control deficits, and Kane's indeterminism merely substitutes causal gaps for causal inevitability.
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    • 2.A genuine agent-causal relation requires the *substance* of the agent—not merely events within the agent—to be the originating source, a condition event-causal libertarianism by definition cannot satisfy.
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    • 1.On Kane's view, the agent's wanting more to act on the reason for which she makes a self-forming willing (SFW) is brought about by the choice itself, not prior to it
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    • 2.On an event-causal view, the agent's control over making a choice is a matter of the production of the choice, not of what the choice produces
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    • 3.Therefore, the requirement that the agent comes to want more to act on the chosen reason cannot ground control over the choice itself
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    Kane’s appeal to indeterminate efforts of will, and the appeal thereby to indeterminism, do not appear to help meet the luck objection. (Neither does it appear that help comes from his requirement that, in making a choice that is an SFW, the agent comes to want more to act on the reason for which she makes that choice. For, on Kane’s view, this wanting more is brought about by the choice. And if an event-causal view is on the right track, the agent’s control over the making of the choice is a ma
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